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A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide
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A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide

Thomas Lord. Busby

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Lettering: Painter's hall. Inscription on the back wall: "To be satisfied with your own works is a bad sign. Leonardo [da] Vinci". A folio of drawings in the bottom right corner is labelled "Anatomical studies"

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