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Paolo Farinati

Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso)

c. 1588
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (recto), and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper (verso), on blue laid paper
25.4 × 42 cm (10 × 16.5 in)

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