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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Seven Sketches of Pairs of Boxers

1818/1819
Graphite with pen and brown ink, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper
22.4 × 28.6 cm (8.8 × 11.3 in)

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