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Louis Jean Desprez

View of the Grotta di Palazzo with Banquet

c. 1790
Pen and black ink and brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on card
21.8 × 35.4 cm (8.6 × 13.9 in)

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