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Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Wolves Attacking Sheep ("Rein de Trop II")

1732
Pen and brush and black ink, with brush and gray wash and black-and-white gouache, on blue laid paper
31.3 × 26.1 cm (12.3 × 10.3 in)

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