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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)

1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)
Red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto
22.7 × 24.2 cm (8.9 × 9.5 in)

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