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Isidore Pils

Cleric with Joined Hands (lower register?); verso: (same figure); (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Black chalk, stumped, white chalk, on dark gray paper (recto); faint black chalk (verso)
36.5 × 24.4 cm (14.4 × 9.6 in)

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