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Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Prospero Fontana

Design for a Festival Float or Barge

ca. 1530–40
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on faded blue paper
26.1 × 42.8 cm (10.3 × 16.9 in)

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