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Giovanni Battista Naldini

Study for the Purification of the Virgin

c. 1577
Red and black chalk with stumping, and incising, over pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk
40.9 × 27.2 cm (16.1 × 10.7 in)

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