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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sheet of Sketches: Greyhounds; A Male and a Female Head in

1813/14
Graphite with brush and brown wash, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
17.3 × 23 cm (6.8 × 9.1 in)

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