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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Five Sketches for a Cavalry Battle

1813/14
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
17.2 × 22.8 cm (6.8 × 9 in)

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