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Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

The Adoration of the Shepherds

1599
Pen and brown ink, brownish-red wash, heightened with white gouache; framing line in pen and brown ink, by a later hand
25 × 33 cm (9.8 × 13 in)

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