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Gregorio Pagani

Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist (recto); large-scale cropped sketches of draperies and legs (verso)

1590–92
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk on blue paper (recto); black chalk (verso); squared in black chalk
22.6 × 17.2 cm (8.9 × 6.8 in)

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