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Unknown Sienese

Death of a Saint

c. 1580
Black chalk with brush and brown wash, and incising, heightened with touches of white gouache, on ivory laid paper, pieced and partially laid down on ivory laid paper
22 × 16.7 cm (8.7 × 6.6 in)

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