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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Ground Plan for a Catafalque for the King of Sardinia, Vittorio Amedeo (d.1732)

around 1732
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
52.1 × 34.9 cm (20.5 × 13.7 in)

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