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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Putti Carrying the Cross (recto); Studies of a Hand (verso)

1672/75
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping (recto); black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper
27.5 × 20.2 cm (10.8 × 8 in)

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