Saint Christopher Bearing the Christ Child, Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone, 1484–1539

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Saint Christopher Bearing the Christ Child, 1484–1539, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, squared vertically and horizontally in red chalk, diagonally in charcoal, 14 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. ( × cm), Drawings, Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis) (Italian, Pordenone 1483?–1539 Ferrara), This pictorial 'chiaroscuro' study is Pordenone's finished drawing for the Saint Christopher he painted on one of the two shutters of a cupboard for ecclesiastical silver in Saint Rocco, Venice, about 1527 (Cohen, 1980, fig- 44

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