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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Portrait of a Man

c. 1730
Black chalk with stumping, with traces of charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue-gray laid paper, discolored to cream, laid down on cream wood pulp board
39.3 × 29.6 cm (15.5 × 11.7 in)

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