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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

Standing Figure in a Niche and Studies for the Ugolino Group (recto); Red-Robed Prelate in a Crowd (verso)

1857/58
Pen and black ink, with touches of pink gouache (recto), and pen and black ink with brush and gray wash and red and white gouache (verso), on blue wove paper
29.4 × 21.9 cm (11.6 × 8.6 in)

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