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Alesso Baldovinetti|Francesco Botticini

A Seated Saint Reading from a Book

late 15th century
Brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized); horizontal lines in black chalk (?); pricked for transfer; outlines reinforced in brown ink, perhaps in the 15th or early 16th century.
26.1 × 16.2 cm (10.3 × 6.4 in)

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