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Maarten van Heemskerck

The Adoration of the Shepherds; verso: Sketches

ca. 1532–37
Pen and two hues of brown ink, brown-gray wash, heightened with white gouache; verso: black chalk
34.7 × 33.7 cm (13.7 × 13.3 in)

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