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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of graphite
24.7 × 15 cm (9.7 × 5.9 in)

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