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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek

c. 1719
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
37 × 51.1 cm (14.6 × 20.1 in)

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