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Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Coronation of the Virgin and a Variant for the Decoration

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Pen and black ink brush and gray wash
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1952
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Title: Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Coronation of the Virgin and a Variant for the Decoration
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Pen and black ink brush and gray wash.

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