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Pietro Testa|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi

The dream of St Joseph, who is sleeping at the right, the Virgin and Child by a cross surrounded by angels and many putti and with God the Father above

ca. 1635–37
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36.5 × 29.5 cm (14.4 × 11.6 in)

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