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Correggio

The Annunciation

ca. 1522–25
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, squared in red chalk, on paper tinted with reddish wash
9.5 × 17.2 cm (3.7 × 6.8 in)

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