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Charles Meryon

Study for an arch of Pont Notre-Dame, Paris

1853
Graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink on cream wove tracing paper (discolored to tan), tipped onto buff wove paper
12.6 × 17 cm (5 × 6.7 in)

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