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Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms

1639–1709
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on rose-washed paper
19.9 × 13.5 cm (7.8 × 5.3 in)

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