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Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

ca. 1748
Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on gray-green paper
35.2 × 18.1 cm (13.9 × 7.1 in)

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