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Alessandro Allori

Design for Ornamental Border with Foliage, Putti and a Lion's Head

1535–1607
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk or graphite, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, pasted down on a Talman mount
30.8 × 16.3 cm (12.1 × 6.4 in)

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