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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

A Portrait of Ferdinand Ludwig, Count von Oeynhausen-Schulenburg

c. 1730
Black chalk with stumping, and with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper (discolored to tan), laid down on cream wood pulp board
51 × 38.7 cm (20.1 × 15.2 in)

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