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Monk in White, Seated, Reading , c. 1857 , Musée du Louvre, Paris

Louvre, Paris, RF 1609 ), and even more closely related to a group of paintings of seated, reading monks in a white habits which are believed to date from the 1850 s and 1860 s ( Monk in White, Seated, Reading , Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 2604 ; Seated Monk Reading , R III, no. 1332 , Bührle Collection, Zurich; Monk in White, Reading , Private collection, New York, in Paris, Ottowa and New York 1996 , figs. 104 a and 104 b, p. 244 ).