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Theodore Matthias von Holst

Scene from Faust: Auerbach's Cellar

n.d.
Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, with pen and brown ink, heightened with gum arabic, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream board
30.6 × 51.6 cm (12 × 20.3 in)

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