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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tracing paper
35.8 × 21.1 cm (14.1 × 8.3 in)

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