A Saint Holding a Book
1640
chalk
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1640
chalk
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
A Saint Holding a Book is a 1640 chalk by Gioacchino Assereto, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Gioacchino Assereto (1600 – 28 June 1649) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period and one of the most prominent history painters active in Genoa in the first half of the 17th century.
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