Giorgione

Putto Bending a Bow

1477/78–1510
Red chalk. Original sheet, 15.7 x 6.6 cm.; this has been made up (almost certainly by Pierre-Jean Mariette) to a sheet 23.7 x 15.2 cm. on which a base and a surrounding niche for the putto have been indicated in pen and brown ink, red chalk and brush with red wash.
15.7 × 6.6 cm (6.2 × 2.6 in)

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