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Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

St. Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague in Milan

ca. 1760
Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white, over black chalk
47.3 × 32.6 cm (18.6 × 12.8 in)

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