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Louis Jean Desprez

View of Crossing in Saint Peter's

n.d.
Pen and black ink and brush and black and gray wash, with touches of brown and yellow watercolor and graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
54.7 × 42.4 cm (21.5 × 16.7 in)

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