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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Portrait of a Gondolier

c. 1730
Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board
38.8 × 29.9 cm (15.3 × 11.8 in)

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