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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sketches of a Forest Path and a Musical Boating Party

1813/14
Graphite, pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
22.9 × 16.9 cm (9 × 6.7 in)

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