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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

1742/43
Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
40.5 × 27.2 cm (15.9 × 10.7 in)

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