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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children

1860
Pen and brown ink and opaque white and gray watercolors with white oil paint and black watercolor over black chalk on brown wove paper (Bristol board)
62.4 × 47.9 cm (24.6 × 18.9 in)

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