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Giacomo Quarenghi

Central Salon of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

1792–96
Pen and black ink, brush with gray, green, pink, blue, brown, and yellow wash, over ruled construction lines in graphite. Fragments of framing lines in black ink
37.1 × 58.1 cm (14.6 × 22.9 in)

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