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Francesco Solimena

Spandrel Decoration with Seated Allegorical Figures of Hope and Concord

n.d.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, squared in black chalk on ivory laid paper
18.7 × 35.5 cm (7.4 × 14 in)

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