19th century ITALIAN school, after Andrea del SARTO The Healing of the Possessed Pen and black ink, brown and gray wash. 22 x 30 cm Repeat of one of the five frescoes on The Life of Saint Philip Benizzi, painted by Andrea del Sarto in the cloister of the ex-voto of the Annunziata convent in Florence (see A. Natali and A. Cecchi, Andrea del Sarto, complete catalog, Paris, 1992, no. 9, reproduced fig. 9c).

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