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Isidore Pils

Acolyte with Open Book (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Red, white, and black chalk, on gray paper
48.4 × 29.8 cm (19.1 × 11.7 in)

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