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Pietro Testa

The Holy Family with Attendant Angels

1612–50
Pen and brown ink (recto); fragmentary copy in pen and brown ink of figures in Mantegna's engraving, the Senators (verso) (Bartsch, 8, pp. 234-235, no. 11)
13.7 × 15.4 cm (5.4 × 6.1 in)

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