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Prospero Fontana

An Allegory: Male Nude in a Stable with Four Wild Horses

ca. 1512–after 1593
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink
11.4 × 8.3 cm (4.5 × 3.3 in)

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