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Silhouetted Study of Pan in a Niche
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Pen and gray ink brush with gray and pale brown wash highlighted with white gouache over black chalk on cream paper. Figure cut out along contours and pasted onto a drawn niche with an arched top (in brush and gray wash over graphite or lead) on beige paper
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1961
Title: Silhouetted Study of Pan in a Niche
Description:
Pen and gray ink brush with gray and pale brown wash highlighted with white gouache over black chalk on cream paper.
Figure cut out along contours and pasted onto a drawn niche with an arched top (in brush and gray wash over graphite or lead) on beige paper.
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