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Paolo Veronese

Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)

c. 1580
pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash

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The sheet of paper was a more vibrant, pure blue when the drawing was made; aging has rendered the color of the sheet closer to a green-gray.

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