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Francesco Allegrini

Aeneas and Achates Entering Dido's Palace in a Cloud

1624–63
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in black chalk, and in pen and brown ink on mount
8.9 × 12.9 cm (3.5 × 5.1 in)

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