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Eugène Delacroix

Studies of a Rearing Horse Attacked by a Lion and a Lion Wrestling with a Serpent

1830s
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on writing paper
13.6 × 15.9 cm (5.4 × 6.3 in)

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