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Drawn with brown ink and shaded with brown wash, a crowd gathers in a columned space on this horizontal sheet. Two columns divide the scene into thirds. The column on the left is straight, and the column on the right twists, as if gently rippling in an elongated spiral. A row of four more columns behind each of these front columns mimics their contours. Between the two front columns and close to us, a clean-shaven man and a bearded man look down at a man who sits with one ankle crossed over the other knee. The seated man looks up with his mouth open, the corners downturned, and his brows…

The Miracle of the Lame Man Healed by Saint Peter and Saint John

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

c. 1606/1608 · pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened in buff, on laid paper, laid down

National Gallery of Art · Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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