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Charles Michel Ange Challe

View Within the Colosseum, Rome

18th century

Black chalk, heightened with white on gray-blue paper. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Verso: faint black chalk sketch of an arch.

27.6 × 41.4 cm (10.9 × 16.3 in)

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