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Maerten de Vos|Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Saint Ambrose Seated in an Interior

ca. 1520–40
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on off-white paper prepared with brown gouache; framing line in pen and brown ink, by the artist

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