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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Red, white, and black chalk, on dark gray paper
48 × 31.1 cm (18.9 × 12.2 in)

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