Half-Length Study of a Monk Holding a Book and a Long Implement, Bernardo Strozzi, ca. 1637–40

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Half-Length Study of a Monk Holding a Book and a Long Implement, ca. 1637–40, Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk on blue-gray paper, 11 7/16 x 8 5/8in. ( x ), Drawings, Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, Genoa 1581–1644 Venice), This superb drawing by the Genoese Baroque master Bernardo Strozzi is a preparatory study for a devotional painting with ‘St. Anthony of Padua with a book and a lily

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