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Bartolomeo Cesi

Study for Allegory of Faith and Silence

1500/95
Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash, with traces of red chalk, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory wove card
26.8 × 22.5 cm (10.6 × 8.9 in)

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