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Lot Essay
Three other versions of this composition by Cossiers are known, in the Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm and the painting sold at Sotheby's, London, Nov. 8, 1975, lot 29; see B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, 1979, I, p. 99; III, pls. 1445-6.