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Domenichino

Temperance

1628–30
black chalk heightened with white chalk, squared with black chalk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Despite having carefully prepared the composition for his fresco of Temperance with this and other drawings, Domenichino left Rome before completing the painting. It was later finished by one of his pupils.

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