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La coule du personnage, absente du tableau de Brunswick (voir infra), souligne son \u00e9tat d\u2019ermite chr\u00e9tien. \u2013 \u00c0 dater en fait vers 1645 (et non 1661). \u2013 Version tr\u00e8s voisine \u00e0 Brunswick, jadis attribu\u00e9e \u00e0 Dou et maintenant donn\u00e9e \u00e0 juste titre \u00e0 l\u2019un de ses imitateurs, Dominicus van Tol (Bodegrave, vers 1635-Leyde, 1676), cf. Klessmann (1983), n\u00b0 736 p. 198.","inscriptions":"Inscription : \r ; S.D.b.d. (sur la partie agrandie au XVIIIe s.) : G. 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