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Pietro Antonio Novelli

Half-Length Study for a Portrait of a Young Man

mid-18th–early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, with touches of pink and blue in the face
16.7 × 11.7 cm (6.6 × 4.6 in)

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