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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Elevation of a Catafalque: the Central Part Comprised of a Series of Steps to Top; with Statues and Central Cartouche with a Figural Scene: a Figure Kneeling before Virgin and Child (?)

1696–1756
Pen and brown ink
51.4 × 36.8 cm (20.2 × 14.5 in)

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