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Pirro Ligorio

Sketches after the Antique: Bacchic Revels; Neptune in His Chariot

c. 1535
Black chalk, with pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
9.3 × 21.2 cm (3.7 × 8.3 in)

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