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Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for a Bishop (lower register); verso: Sketch of a sleeve; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

19th century
Black chalk, stumped, white and red chalk, on dark gray paper (recto); black chalk (verso)
48.1 × 30.4 cm (18.9 × 12 in)

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