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Francesco Salviati

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss

1555/63
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with traces of black chalk, on oval-shaped tan laid paper, edge mounted on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
6.4 × 10.7 cm (2.5 × 4.2 in)

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