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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Sheet of Sketches: Standing Man with Raised Arm, Cherubim

1768/78
Pen and black ink, and charcoal, with traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper
23.1 × 36.5 cm (9.1 × 14.4 in)

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