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Francesco Primaticcio

Ulysses and His Companions Fighting the Cicones Before the City of Ismaros, Study for a Destroyed Fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau

1555–60
Red chalk highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper
24.1 × 31.9 cm (9.5 × 12.6 in)

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