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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk, on gray paper. Large brown stain.
45.2 × 31.8 cm (17.8 × 12.5 in)

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