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Follower of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco
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Description
- Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco
- saint francis and brother leo meditating on death
- traces of a signature on the cartellino lower right
- oil on canvas
Catalogue Note
A 17th century copy after El Greco's often repeated composition, of which one of the autograph versions is in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (see H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, New Jersey 1962, vol. I, p. 124, no. 225, reproduced vol. II, fig. 275).