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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Half Elevation and Half Section of Catafalque for a Duchess of Hanover, probably Sophia (1630-1714)

1696–1756
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash
52.7 × 36.2 cm (20.7 × 14.3 in)

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