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Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

Seated Figure with Head in Hands and Two Caricatures (recto); Four Figures in a Lunette (verso)

1847/1875
Black crayon (recto and verso) on blue wove paper
24.3 × 15.9 cm (9.6 × 6.3 in)

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