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   Lazzaro Tavarone
   Italian, 1556-1641

   Study for Juno (or Diana) with a Peacock, 1584/85

   Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk

   Art Institute of Chicago

    

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