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Louis Joseph Watteau, called Watteau de Lille

Young Father Distressed by His Growing Family

18th century
Pen and brownish-gray ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk. A horizontal strip 1.5 cm in height has been added at lower margin and the drawing continued in the same hand.
36.5 × 22.6 cm (14.4 × 8.9 in)

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