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Allegories of Africa and America

Claude Louis Desrais · 1746–1816

Maximum print size

21.6 × 16.8 cm · 8.5 × 6.6 in

at 300 DPI from the 2,538 × 1,979 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 5×7 inch frame.

Frame: 35.6 × 27.9 cm · 14.0 × 11.0 in
Mat opening: 21.6 × 16.8 cm · 8.5 × 6.6 in
Mat border, sides: 7.1 cm · 2.8 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 5.6 cm · 2.2 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: n.d.
Medium: Pen, black ink, brown wash, heightened with white on paper
Type: Drawings
Size: 14.3 × 18.4 cm · 5.6 × 7.2 in
Orientation: landscape
Subjects: Lions, Male Nudes, Men
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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