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Women of Algiers by Eugène Delacroix, 1833
Sketches like this came out of a few months tagging along with a French mission to North Africa, according to Wikipedia — notebooks filled up on the trip, then the big painting worked out later, back home. One journey he kept mining for years afterwards.
Erisava: Two pencil sketches on a stained bit of paper. Who decided this was worth keeping?