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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Giacomo Feeding a Dog

1738/39
Black chalk with stumping, with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood-pulp board
53.5 × 42.2 cm (21.1 × 16.6 in)

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