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Pencil and orange chalk sketch of a seated boy in a cap playing a lute.

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Drawing, Seated boy playing a lute, ca. 1890, Elihu Vedder (1890), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A pencil drawing with touches of orange chalk shows a seated youth in a cap playing a lute, his left hand fretting the neck while his right hand rests on the body. The figure is loosely rendered with hatched shading on the legs and the sitting surface beneath him.

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