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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

Farmer Requesting Permission to Marry a Nobleman's Daughter

1761
Graphite and pen and black ink, with touches of opaque, white watercolor on cream laid paper
12.5 × 7.9 cm (4.9 × 3.1 in)

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