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Giovanni Angelo Canini

Copy after a Sculpture of the Sleeping Eros Based on an Antique Model (from Cassiano dal Pozzo's 'Paper Museum')

ca. 1630
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink
21.7 × 32.1 cm (8.5 × 12.6 in)

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