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Erasmus Quellinus

Scene from the Life of Saint Bartholomew (fragment)

1620–78
Brush and brown ink, white bodycolor, red chalk. At right, part of a framing line in pen and brown ink
34.5 × 14.4 cm (13.6 × 5.7 in)

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