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Agostino Carracci

Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso)

1600–1602
Pen and brown ink, some sketches over red chalk, some faint scribbles in charcoal (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray-blue wash (verso)
28.4 × 40.1 cm (11.2 × 15.8 in)

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