Johann Eleazar Zeissig, called Schenau

An Antique Sacrificial Scene (recto); Sketch of a Group of People (verso)

1779 (?)
Brush and gray ink, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, not by the artist; verso: black chalk
21.2 × 32.7 cm (8.3 × 12.9 in)

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