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Oil sketches

Scope note

Use for paintings executed in oil paint that were intended as preparatory studies of a more finished, usually larger, painting.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300033690

Broader Terms used

oil paintings

Term used for

sketches, oil

Equivalent Terms used

oil sketch

Created

13yrs ago

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