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Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Ceiling Decoration with Venus and Adonis

n.d.
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on gray wove paper
19.5 × 33.2 cm (7.7 × 13.1 in)

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