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Carle (Charles André) Vanloo

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

ca. 1755
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, blue, red and pale yellow wash heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on brown-washed paper. The sheet consists of fourteen pieces of cream-colored paper mounted on a paper support.
71.4 × 89.9 cm (28.1 × 35.4 in)

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