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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

A Young Boy Wearing a Plumed Hat, and a Young Girl

1735/40
Charcoal with stumping, with black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, tipped on to beige Japanese paper
40.4 × 30.4 cm (15.9 × 12 in)

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