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Claude Louis Châtelet

Design for a Frontispiece

1782
Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and brown and gray wash, watercolor. Framing lines in pen and black ink, with pink wash outside line.
44.6 × 32.9 cm (17.6 × 13 in)

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