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Unknown Artist French, 19th century

Diogenes Asking Alexander the Great to Step Aside (recto); Striding Academic Male Nude (verso)

n.d.
Charcoal and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto), and charcoal with stumping (verso) on cream laid paper with blue fibers
38 × 51.8 cm (15 × 20.4 in)

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