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Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Swallows in Flight by Jean-Baptiste Oudry — VisualArtsDB

Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Swallows in Flight

Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Swallows in Flight

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Medium: Verso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 43 x 34.5 cm (16 15/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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