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Giorgio Vasari

Study for the Allegory of Birth

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on blue laid paper, laid down on tan wove card
21.2 × 32.3 cm (8.3 × 12.7 in)

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