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A Seated Saint Reading from a Book

Alesso Baldovinetti

Maximum print size

22.1 × 32.5 cm · 8.7 × 12.8 in

at 300 DPI from the 2,616 × 3,841 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening: 22.1 × 32.5 cm · 8.7 × 12.8 in
Mat border, sides: 9.4 cm · 3.7 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 9.1 cm · 3.6 in

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Details

Date: late 15th century
Medium: Brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized); horizontal lines in black chalk (?); pricked for transfer; outlines reinforced in brown ink, perhaps in the 15th or early 16th century.
Type: Drawings
Size: 26.1 × 16.2 cm · 10.3 × 6.4 in
Orientation: portrait
Subjects: Books, Reading, Saints
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗