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Giovanni Antonio Guardi

The Good Samaritan

1699–1766
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; squared for transfer in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
34.2 × 25.1 cm (13.5 × 9.9 in)

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