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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist Before Herod

1695/1741
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over red chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
24.2 × 39.6 cm (9.5 × 15.6 in)

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