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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Dancer Turning

c. 1876
Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, with stumping, on pinkish-gray laid paper with blue fibers (discolored to brownish-gray)
60.7 × 44.8 cm (23.9 × 17.6 in)

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