The Departure of Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium for the Holy Land, Giuseppe Bottani, 1740

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The Departure of Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium for the Holy Land, 1740, Red chalk; squared in black chalk, 15 7/8 x 9 5/8in. ( x ), Drawings, Giuseppe Bottani (Italian, Cremona 1717–1784 Mantua), The drawing is a squared study with minor variations for Bottani's monumental altarpiece now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, signed and dated 1745 ( 410 x 231 cm; inv. 410). The painting, generally considered the artist's early masterpiece, was executed in Rome and commissioned by the Hieronymites for their now-destroyed Milanese church of Santi Cosma e Damiano

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