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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Sketches of a Cavalry Battle and Studies of a Draught Horse

1813/14
Graphite with brush and brown wash on cream wove paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
23.2 × 17.4 cm (9.1 × 6.9 in)

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