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Peter Candid

Two studies of a Standing Man with a Sword (Alexander the Great); verso: Studies of a Leg, an Arm, a Hand, and a Figure's Neck

ca. 1601
Pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over black and red chalk, on off-white paper prepared with pink gouache
19 × 16.5 cm (7.5 × 6.5 in)

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