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Isidore Pils

Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray paper
47.4 × 30.3 cm (18.7 × 11.9 in)

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