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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

A Farmer Entrusting the Plow to His Son

n.d.
Brush and gray wash, over graphite. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Squared in graphite. Verso of mount: figure in brush and gray wash.
39.2 × 49.5 cm (15.4 × 19.5 in)

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