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Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)
Battista Franco, 1554–61
- Artist
- Battista Franco (Italian, Venice ca. 1510–1561 Venice)
- Date
- 1554–61
- Medium
- Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) (the ink of this latter study has bled through at lower left of recto)
- Size
- 7 5/16 x 12 9/16in. (18.6 x 31.9cm)
- Type
- Drawings
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public domain: free to use, no permission needed
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