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Folio recto: Blank; verso: Heron by Jean Baptiste Oudry — VisualArtsDB

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Folio recto: Blank; verso: Heron

Folio recto: Blank; verso: Heron

Folio recto: Blank; verso: Heron

Jean Baptiste Oudry

Medium: Verso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 42.5 x 34.5 cm (16 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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