This wall-painting originally came from the church of San Clemente de Tahull in the lower Catalan Pyrenées, but like many wall-paintings from this region it was transferred to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona for safekeeping in the 1930's. Pablo Picasso was particularly struck by the highly idiosyncratic and distinctive style of the San Clemente Master, and kept a poster of this image in his house at Mougins in Southern France.
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