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Nicolas Poussin

Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso)

ca. 1635–40
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
20.5 × 25.8 cm (8.1 × 10.2 in)

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