41 - [Georges CLEMENCEAU]. Original portrait by P. Jourdain: preparatory drawing which served as a model for a bust of Georges Clemenceau in 1920, black ink on tracing paper (21.5 x 25 cm, mounted on cardboard 22.5 x 30.5 cm), captioned with the indication on the back that this drawing participated in the Fontenay-le-Comte Exhibition in 1979 on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the death of the Tiger

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