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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Red chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk and gouache, with traces of black chalk, on gray paper.
47.4 × 30.9 cm (18.7 × 12.2 in)

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