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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

A Flying Angel (recto)

1723–27
black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk

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The Venetian blue paper ( carta azzurra ) of this sheet was the preferred medium for preparatory drawings among artists in Venice at the time this drawing was made.

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