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Eugène Delacroix

A Young Black Woman Fetching Water

1832
Watercolor and graphite, heightened with gouache on paper

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Delacroix replicated and slightly changed the image in this watercolor as a wood engraving published in the popular journal L’Illustration in 1844.

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