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Charles Michel Ange Challe

An Architectural Capriccio; a View Through a Great Arch with an Obelisk in a Piazza in the Middle Distance

18th century
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash
20.9 × 28 cm (8.2 × 11 in)

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