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Alonso Cano

Three Putti Holding Cross Before Two Male Saints

1601–67
Pen and medium brown ink over traces of black chalk underdrawing on cream paper. Lightly foxed. Composition outlined with pen and medium brown ink. Lined with a strip of paper showing at bottom
15.2 × 20.3 cm (6 × 8 in)

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