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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sketches for a Cavalry Battle and a Mounted Officer

1813/1814
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
16.6 × 22.7 cm (6.5 × 8.9 in)

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