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Francesco Primaticcio

Return of Agamemnon

18th century
Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
22.9 × 19.8 cm (9 × 7.8 in)

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