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Drapery Study for Sainte-Clotilde (upper register); verso: Standing Soldier; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858) by Isidore Pils

Drapery Study for Sainte-Clotilde (upper register); verso: Standing Soldier; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

Isidore Pils · 1825

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Artist
Isidore Pils
Date
1825
Medium
Red and white chalk on tracing paper (recto); black chalk (verso); pasted onto larger sheet; (verso visible through tracing paper)
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
17 x 9 3/4 in. (43.2 x 24.8 cm)
Collection
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989
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