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Isidore Pils

a. Study for Clovis (middle register); b. Study for Clovis (middle register); c. St. Dominic and another Friar, after Fra Angelico; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
a, b. Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tracing paper; c. graphite
17.8 × 13.9 cm (7 × 5.5 in)

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