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Edgar Degas

Sheet of Studies and Sketches

1858
graphite, pen and dark brown ink, and watercolor on thick ivory wove paper

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The date Degas wrote on this drawing is incorrect; he didn't visit Florence until 1858, and must have inscribed the sheet years later.

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