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Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Saint Deicolus and the Boar

1747–48
pen and brown and gray inks and brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache; incised, verso coated with red chalk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The rarely depicted St. Deicolus was an Irish monk who lived in the 600s and was known for his retreat to a hermitage in a forest.

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