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Detail of a Cornice; verso: Sketches of Figures by John Singer Sargent — VisualArtsDB

Detail of a Cornice; verso: Sketches of Figures

Detail of a Cornice; verso: Sketches of Figures

John Singer Sargent

Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: actual: 35.3 x 25.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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