Four Actors in Heroic Costume, with a Study of a Helmeted Head — Claude Gillot | DiscoverArt

Four Actors in Heroic Costume, with a Study of a Helmeted Head

ca. 1711–22

Watercolor, pen and black ink, red chalk, and traces of black chalk

14.2 × 20 cm (5.6 × 7.9 in)

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