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Annibale Carracci

The Drunken SiIenus: Design for the "Tazza Farnese"

1599–1600
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, and stylus compass constructions; framing lines in pen and brown ink and black chalk or charcoal
25.6 × 25.5 cm (10.1 × 10 in)

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