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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Illustration for a Book: Keys of a City Offered to a Procession of Cardinals Headed by a Riderless Horse

1696–1770
Black chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
7.5 × 15.5 cm (3 × 6.1 in)

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