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Bartolomeo Passarotti

Two Sketches: Kneeling Putto Holding a Head (recto) Details of a Nude Male Child (verso)

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with graphite, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
24.2 × 20.3 cm (9.5 × 8 in)

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