Alessandro Magnasco

Picaresque Group with a Monkey and a Magpie

1720/25
Brush and brown gouache and brush and brown wash, with touches of red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to pale brownish-gray)
47.8 × 37.2 cm (18.8 × 14.6 in)

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