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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Red chalk, stumped, traces of black chalk
46.5 × 30.2 cm (18.3 × 11.9 in)

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