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Pietro Testa

Allegorical Figures on Mount Parnassus: Study for the etching Triumph of Painting

1612–50
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk. The sketch of Pegasus in black chalk only. Framing lines in pen and brown ink
33.7 × 24 cm (13.3 × 9.4 in)

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