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Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for a Bishop (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Red and white chalk, traces of black chalk, on gray paper. Scattered stains.
48.4 × 30.1 cm (19.1 × 11.9 in)

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