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Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (below), Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac (above)
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Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash highlighted with white gouache squared in black chalk on brownish paper. The empty triangular corners are tinted in gray-green wash the right diagonal border tinted in gray wash
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1963
Title: Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (below), Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac (above)
Description:
Pen and brown ink brush and brown wash highlighted with white gouache squared in black chalk on brownish paper.
The empty triangular corners are tinted in gray-green wash the right diagonal border tinted in gray wash.
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