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Luc-Olivier Merson

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (recto); Sketch of a Sphinx [?] (verso)

c. 1879–80
gray and graphite wash, with scraping and traces of black chalk

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It is possible that this drawing served as a model for a print, but the best-known printed reproduction of the painting differs from the sheet in several minor details.

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