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Giovanni Battista Foggini

Design for an Overdoor or the Top of a Niche with a Bust and Garland-bearing Putti

1652–1725
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over traces of black chalk
17.5 × 19.7 cm (6.9 × 7.8 in)

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