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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Elevation and Section for a Catafalque for the Dauphin of France, d. 1711

ca. 1711
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite underdrawing and ruling; probably compass ruling
52.4 × 38.1 cm (20.6 × 15 in)

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