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Alexandre Cabanel

Woman Reaching Over a Wall, study for The Life of Saint Louis, King of France

c. 1878
Black and red chalk, with touches of stumping, on cream laid paper
26.8 × 28.4 cm (10.6 × 11.2 in)

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