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Avanzino Nucci

Aeneas and His Companions Preparing Animals for Sacrifice

n.d.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on blue brown paper, pieced and laid down on cream wove paper
21.3 × 45.8 cm (8.4 × 18 in)

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