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Fortitude (or Strength) Flanked by Two Satyrs

c. 1550-1600
Brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black chalk
39.2 × 28 cm (15.4 × 11 in)

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