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Marcantonio Franceschini|Carlo Cignani

Head of a Young Woman in Three-Quarter View Facing Left

1670–1700
Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white and cream gouache (partly oxidized), over a preliminary freehand and ruled underdrawing in charcoal, outlines stylus-incised for transfer, on four glued sheets of light tan paper with deckled borders. Traces of framing outlines stylus-ruled along upper, right, and bottom borders
46 × 36 cm (18.1 × 14.2 in)

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