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Monk Giving Last Communion

A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and blue-gray wash, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and blue-gray wash, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid paper.

Date:

1575/85

Artist:

Attributed to Giovanni Battista Paggi
Italian, 1554-1627

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Battista Paggi

Title

Monk Giving Last Communion

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1575–1585

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and blue-gray wash, on tan laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right on mount, in graphite: "no. 886"; upper right on mount, in graphite: "530"; inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in graphite: ". . . 12. 9bre.1829.Paggi."

Dimensions

9.9 × 16 cm (3 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.886

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