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Isidore Pils

Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858); black chalk landscape sketch on verso of support

19th century
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tracing paper. Paste marks on all margins. Affixed to a sheet of light gray paper.
40.4 × 24 cm (15.9 × 9.4 in)

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