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Claude Gillot

The Actors Making Ready (recto); Studies of the Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist (verso)

1705/10
Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash (recto) and pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, with touches of pen and black ink and traces of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper
15.8 × 26 cm (6.2 × 10.2 in)

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