Saint Gregory the Great Called to the Papacy
18th century
Artists
Dimensions
53.2 × 40.5 cm (20 15/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Sale, Drouot (Ader-Tajan), Paris, 27 June 1992, lot 315; W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund and Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 1993.163
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