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Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

Study of the Head and Hands of an Old Woman Looking Up

c. 1775
Black chalk, with stumping, heightened with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper, prepared with a blue ground, laid down on ivory laid paper
21.4 × 18.6 cm (8.4 × 7.3 in)

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