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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Study of a Singer

1878/80
Charcoal and fabricated black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on greenish gray wove paper, perimeter mounted to millboard
49.2 × 63.7 cm (19.4 × 25.1 in)

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