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Study for Angels Sealing the Foreheads of the Children of Israel in Saint Peter's Basilica

1652
Black chalk, brush with brown and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, on three sheets of brownish paper glued with overlapping joints
42.7 × 113.2 cm (16.8 × 44.6 in)

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