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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sketches of an Equestrian Battle and the Head of a Greyhound

1813/14
Graphite on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
16.8 × 22.5 cm (6.6 × 8.9 in)

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