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Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for a Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk, on gray paper
29 × 20 cm (11.4 × 7.9 in)

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