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Isidore Pils

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

19th century
Red chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk, traces of black chalk, on light gray paper
46.3 × 29.8 cm (18.2 × 11.7 in)

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