Sketch of a Female Nude Resembling the Medici Venus (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 19 recto)
1774–75
Graphite, brush and yellow wash
23.4 × 17.1 cm (9.2 × 6.7 in)
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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026
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