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Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel

Visitors with Torches Inside a Circular Building

ca. 1769
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, heightened with touches of white, over traces of black chalk
26.8 × 39.3 cm (10.6 × 15.5 in)

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