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Compositional Sketch by John Singer Sargent — VisualArtsDB

Compositional Sketch

Compositional Sketch

John Singer Sargent

1918

Medium: Graphite and black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: 25.4 x 36.8 cm (10 x 14 1/2 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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