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Pietro Antonio Novelli

A Bearded Monk Showing a Portable Altar to a Praying Child, with an Old Woman Kneeling

mid-18th–early 19th century
Pen and brown ink, wash
26 × 19.5 cm (10.2 × 7.7 in)

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