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Melancholy
Various charcoals and gouache, with pastel and black chalk, and touches of stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on gray wove paper · 36.8 × 35.7 cm (14 1/2 × 14 1/16 in.)
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Public-domain source artwork from the Art Institute of Chicago. Date: 1876. Medium: Various charcoals and gouache, with pastel and black chalk, and touches of stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on gray wove paper. Credit line: Margaret Day Blake, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C.Woods, and William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowments.
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