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Count Giorgio Durante

Two Dead Birds (A Quail and a Long-Beaked Bird)

1685–1755
Brush with gray, black, brown, and light orange wash over graphite. Traces of framing lines in pen and black ink at left and right edges
18.5 × 12.1 cm (7.3 × 4.8 in)

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