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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Disrobing of Christ

c. 1785–90
pen and brown and black ink, brush and black, brown, and red-brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo worked on his Large Biblical Series , including this and around 260 other drawings, from five to ten years.

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