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Giovanni Battista Paggi

Monk Giving Last Communion

1575/85
Pen and brown ink with brush and blue-gray wash, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid paper
9.9 × 16 cm (3.9 × 6.3 in)

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