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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)

c. 1883
Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board
27.2 × 47.7 cm (10.7 × 18.8 in)

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Study for the painting Le Bois Sacre, c.1883 Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk on tan tracing paper squared in charcoal, laid down on cream cardboard

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