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Studies for a figure composition
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Black chalk and pen and brown ink on wove paper (possibly a page from a Salon catalogue: numbered page 6 with cat. nos. 26-34)
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Katherine Ticknor Heintzelman 1966
Title: Studies for a figure composition
Description:
Black chalk and pen and brown ink on wove paper (possibly a page from a Salon catalogue: numbered page 6 with cat.
nos.
26-34).
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