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Giovan Battista della Rovere

Study for Saint Francis of Assisi Giving His Cloak to an Impoverished Knight

1591/95
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper with pink and orange watercolor border
19.7 × 18.8 cm (7.8 × 7.4 in)

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