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Giovanni Angelo Canini

Unidentified Subject: Reclining Nude Male Figure and Cattle

1615–66
Pen and brown ink (recto); illegible black chalk notations (verso)
25.2 × 18.6 cm (9.9 × 7.3 in)

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