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Domenichino

The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco)

1612–14
Charcoal highlighted with white chalk on fourteen sheets of blue laid paper, two of the sheets cut from elsewhere on the original cartoon and reset at the left and right margins to make up the oval
172.2 × 151.3 cm (67.8 × 59.6 in)

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