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baron Dominique Vivant Denon

Portraits of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel (1727-1794), Bishop of Paris in 1792-93, and Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette (1763-1794), Procurator of the Commune in 1792, sketched on the way to the guillotine, April 12, 1794.

1794
Black chalk
16.4 × 10.8 cm (6.5 × 4.3 in)

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