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Refreshing the Thirsty
Refreshing the Thirsty
Flemish Baroque · 1646
From Sweerts's Seven Acts of Mercy series — a woman hands a cup to a kneeling man in the street. Painted in Rome, in a palette of clay and ash; his silent dignity is closer to Le Nain than to any Dutch contemporary.