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Hubert François Gravelot

Study for Vignette in Voltaire's "La Pucelle d'Orleans", with Sketches of Heads and Nude Figures

c. 1762
Pen and brown and gray ink, over graphite and red chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
16.6 × 10.7 cm (6.5 × 4.2 in)

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