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Luigi Benfatto

Bishop Blessing a Kneeling Man OR Meeting of Emperor Theodosius and Bishop Ambrose

c. 1600
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper
20.1 × 29.1 cm (7.9 × 11.5 in)

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