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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sketches of Horses and Soldiers

c. 1818–1819
Graphite and pen and brown ink, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
22.6 × 28.7 cm (8.9 × 11.3 in)

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