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Perino del Vaga

Fragment of a Composition with People Gesturing and Horses in the Background

n.d.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, over traces of black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
28 × 26.2 cm (11 × 10.3 in)

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