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Jacopo Palma the Younger

Seated Doctor of the Church Reading (Saint Ambrose or Saint Gregory)

1600
Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue paper faded to gray-green
19.9 × 16.8 cm (7.8 × 6.6 in)

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