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Edgar Degas

Study of a Ballet Dancer (recto); Two Studies of Dancers (verso)

ca. 1873
Oil with opaque watercolor on prepared pink paper (recto); oil on prepared pink paper (verso)
44.5 × 31.4 cm (17.5 × 12.4 in)

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