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Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for Figure Holding Crown (middle register); study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858

19th century
Black chalk, stumped, heightened with white chalk, on gray paper
47.5 × 30.5 cm (18.7 × 12 in)

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