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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Four Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

c. 1814
Graphite and brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
17.4 × 23.3 cm (6.9 × 9.2 in)

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