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Giovanni Angelo Canini

Design for a Frontispiece; Allegorical Composition with a Young Man Kneeling before a Tree

1615–66
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on brown-washed paper
24 × 16.9 cm (9.4 × 6.7 in)

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