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The head repeats with slight variations a detail of one of the versions, dating probably from the late 1580s onwards, of El Greco's composition of 'The Penitence of Saint Peter'. This is possibly a fragment from a larger composition.
An the autograph version which is probably the earliest is in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.
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