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Hubert François Gravelot

Study for a second edition, never published, of Colle's "La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV", Act III, Scene 10

before 1766
Black chalk, with pen and black ink, heightened with touches of white chalk, on oval-shaped gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter moounted on ivory laid paper
17.7 × 15.1 cm (7 × 5.9 in)

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