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Agostino Carracci

Studies and Sketches for Figures: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, Male Heads, Seated Monkey, and a Long-Beaked Bird (a Stork?) (recto); Figure Studies: Back View of Standing Male and Female Heads, a Flying Long-Beaked Bird, etc. (verso)

1557–1602
Pen and brown ink, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk (recto and verso)
27.2 × 19.8 cm (10.7 × 7.8 in)

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