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Hubert François Gravelot

Study for Vignette in Abbé Dinouart's "Vie du Venerable don Juan de Palafox", p. 391

c. 1767
Pen and gray ink with brush and gray-brown wash, with graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
12.9 × 7.8 cm (5.1 × 3.1 in)

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