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Anthony van Dyck

The Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga in Ecstasy

ca. 1629
Brush and brown ink; enlarged (probably by Pierre-Jean Mariette) below and at right with strips of ca. 7 mm and completed with brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink
10.3 × 7.8 cm (4.1 × 3.1 in)

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