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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sketches of a Cavalry Battle, Head, and Paws of a Greyhound

1813/14
Graphite with brush and brown wash and black crayon on tan wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
16.6 × 22.7 cm (6.5 × 8.9 in)

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