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Polidoro da Caravaggio

Story of Niobe: Priests and Worshippers before a Statue of Niobe

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and red wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), over black chalk, on tan laid paper
13.9 × 35.1 cm (5.5 × 13.8 in)

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