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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues

c. 1890
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan tracing paper, laid down on buff wove paper
32.8 × 50 cm (12.9 × 19.7 in)

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