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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Portrait of a Young Boy

c. 1735
Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board
38.3 × 30.5 cm (15.1 × 12 in)

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