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Matthieu Elias|Reverend Jean de la Barrière

Jean de La Barrière blessing a cardinal

1706
Red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite
53.2 × 44.3 cm (20.9 × 17.4 in)

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