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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Partial design for a ceiling decorated with a trompe l'oeil balustrade

1830–97
Graphite and pen and ink on wove paper; inlaid in blue wove paper
26.3 × 37.6 cm (10.4 × 14.8 in)

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