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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Invocation to Love

c. 1781
Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper

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This drawing contains squaring—a grid underlying the image—suggesting it's a smaller drawn replica of a related oil painting.

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