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Bartholomaeus Spranger

Saint Dominic Reading

c. 1573
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
30.6 × 18.6 cm (12 × 7.3 in)

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