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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Scherzo di Fantasia: Seated Warrior Holding a Serpent, and Standing Youth

1696–1770
Pen and brown ink, brush with pale and dark brown wash, over black chalk
34.9 × 27.5 cm (13.7 × 10.8 in)

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