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Faint Sketch of a Woman's Head by Jacques Louis David — VisualArtsDB

Faint Sketch of a Woman's Head

Faint Sketch of a Woman's Head

Jacques Louis David

1805–1824

Medium: Graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions: 21 x 16.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Unnumbered folio between folios 30 and 31.

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