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Description: Pen and dark grey ink, point of brush in brown, brown wash and watercolour, 256 x 164 mm. Ruled framing lines in black ink, as part of the drawing. Watermark: Dove in a circle. Chain lines: 24 mm. Inscribed at the bottom, in pen and ink, d’ossi.

This is a highly finished drawing, carefully executed with pen and point of brush. The pen lines and wash stop within the framing lines, which are thus part of the drawing. The sea in the background is coloured light blue, which sets it off against the foreground. There are some red strokes among those emanating from the sun, and the cover of the book is red.

Both the watermark and the inscription suggest that the drawing was made in Italy. It comes close to a drawing by Paul Bril in the Louvre, representing St Anthony, but as Lugt remarks, putting a person in the foreground is unique to Bril.  The type comes closer to Elsheimer’s St Paul at Petworth House.  The saint stands on a height in the foreground, with a tree behind him and a landscape in the background. In style, our drawing is close to one by Jan Pynas in the Albertina, Vienna. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 299]

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