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Battista Franco

Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)

1554–61
Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) (the ink of this latter study has bled through at lower left of recto)
18.6 × 31.9 cm (7.3 × 12.6 in)

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