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Giulio Romano

Study for Venus Asking Jupiter for the Services of Mercury as Herald

n.d.
Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and green-gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper prepared with brown wash, laid down on ivory laid card
20.3 × 28.8 cm (8 × 11.3 in)

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