Giovanni Battista Natali III

Design for a Stage Sets: Anteroom with Stairs Leading to a Gallery Composed of a Series of Connected Barrel Vaults

1698–1765
Pen and gray ink, brush with brown and gray wash
15.7 × 11 cm (6.2 × 4.3 in)

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