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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sheet of Sketches: Riders, Mermaids and Two Portraits of Young Men

1813/14
Graphite on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
17 × 22.9 cm (6.7 × 9 in)

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