Taddeo Zuccaro

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

ca. 1550
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on blue paper; traces of framing lines in pen and brown ink along upper and right borders
13.2 × 11.2 cm (5.2 × 4.4 in)

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