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Luca Penni

Design for a Circular Border with Nine Female Figures (the Muses?)

1525–35
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; circular outlines done with compass, and the paper is sectioned into five fragments.
10.2 × 17.8 cm (4 × 7 in)

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