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Agostino Carracci

The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune

1584
Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk
42.4 × 56.6 cm (16.7 × 22.3 in)

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