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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Ground Plan for a Catafalque for Louis I, King of Spain (reigned only a few months, died 1724)

ca. 1724
Pen, brown ink and gray wash
52.4 × 36.8 cm (20.6 × 14.5 in)

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