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Giuseppe Salviati

The Abduction of Helen

mid-16th century
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), over traces of black chalk, on light blue paper.
30.3 × 38.4 cm (11.9 × 15.1 in)

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