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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: The Gallery of a Magnificent Palace Decorated with Mirrors.

1696–1756
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk (recto and verso)
19.9 × 21 cm (7.8 × 8.3 in)

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