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Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso)
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Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Guy Wildenstein Gift and Van Day Truex and Harry G. Sperling Funds 2002
Title: Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso)
Description:
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso).
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