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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Study of a Horse Turning Its Head and Raising His Hind Leg

1818/19
Graphite, on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
22 × 28.5 cm (8.7 × 11.2 in)

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