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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Studies for a Kneeling Figure of Christ and Altar Fronts.

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk; the secondary paper support is outlined with brush and pink wash on the verso
20.7 × 14.9 cm (8.1 × 5.9 in)

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