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Study for the Dead Christ

(Italian (Roman), 1680–1764)
Late 17th–early 18th century
Medium/TechniqueBlack chalk and brush with gray wash, heightened with white, on white paper with a pale gray preparation
DimensionsSheet: 24.6 x 32.3 cm (9 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes, Edward Jackson Holmes Collection
Accession number64.2095
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceAchille de Clementi (1874-1940, Florence, Lugt suppl. 521b); Edward Jackson (1873-1950) and Mary Stacy Beaman (d. 1964) Holmes, Boston; their bequest to the MFA, December 1964
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