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Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Christ Giving the Host to a Holy Abbess (after Gaulli)

1639–1709
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash. Squared in black chalk
38.8 × 23.5 cm (15.3 × 9.3 in)

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