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Polidoro da Caravaggio

Adoration of the Shepherds

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
28.6 × 41.2 cm (11.3 × 16.2 in)

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