Niccolò Martinelli

Group of Figures (recto) Fragment of a Female Head (verso)

1560/1611
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk and touches of graphite, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized) (verso), Red and brown and black and white chalk, with graphite (recto) on blue laid paper
27.8 × 17.5 cm (10.9 × 6.9 in)

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