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Eugène Delacroix

Studies for the decoration of the Library, Palais Bourbon, Paris: standing nude athlete; seated man with a lyre; centaur; and seven putti (three with wings)

1798–1863
Pen and brown ink, faint graphite indications (lyre of seated figure) on wove paper
25.6 × 35.9 cm (10.1 × 14.1 in)

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