Orazio Samacchini

Apollo and Galatea in a Landscape with Neptune and Three Nymphs

1550–60
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk (with some corrections to squaring grid); traces of framing outlines in pen and dark brown ink
18 × 20.5 cm (7.1 × 8.1 in)

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