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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Black chalk on gray paper (recto); red chalk (verso)
48.3 × 29.6 cm (19 × 11.7 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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