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Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Foreshortened or Trompe L'Oeil View of the Architecture Surrounding a Courtyard

1657–1743
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of black chalk
29.3 × 21 cm (11.5 × 8.3 in)

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