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Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)
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Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) (the ink of this latter study has bled through at lower left of recto)
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt 1880
Title: Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)
Description:
Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) (the ink of this latter study has bled through at lower left of recto).
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