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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Black chalk, white chalk, on gray paper, stumped
38.4 × 23.1 cm (15.1 × 9.1 in)

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