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Francesco Salviati

Cavalry Skirmish (recto); Kneeling Ecorché (verso)

1530/39
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over black chalk, with later additions of brown wash in lower right, on ivory laid paper, edge mounted to cream laid paper, hinged on ivory wove card
26.7 × 42 cm (10.5 × 16.5 in)

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