DrawingsItalian16th century

Death of Saint Ambrose

16th century

Artists

Camillo ProcacciniArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

58.4 × 42.6 cm (23 × 16 3/4 in.)

Provenance

John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

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