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Andrea Mantegna

Seated Man Holding a Club or Other Implement (recto); Two Heads of Grotesque Men in Profile (verso)

1484–1500
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
21 × 14.2 cm (8.3 × 5.6 in)

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