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Vitus Felix Rigl

A Study for a Frontispiece: The Trinity and Saints surrounding the Sacred Hearts of Christ and the Virgin Mary, a Coastal Landscape Below

1743–79
Black chalk, pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with lead white (partly oxidized)
41.3 × 28.3 cm (16.3 × 11.1 in)

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