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Sketchbook, page 47: Studies of Three Faces

Ernest Meissonier

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a sketchbook page with two pencil sketches of faces. The page is off-white and aged, with darker edges. The top sketch is a simple outline drawing of a face looking right, with a hat or hair on the left side of the head. The bottom sketch is a more detailed drawing of a face wearing a hat, looking left; the hat brim covers the eyebrows. The background of the page has scattered darker spots and a large light brown stain on the right edge. A small number is written in the bottom-left corner. The sketches appear to be studies of individual faces.

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