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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Designs for Bed Alcoves (Recto). Studies for a figure of St. John the Baptist and a Bed Alcove (Verso).

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk (recto and verso)
20.5 × 14.8 cm (8.1 × 5.8 in)

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