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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Mme. Michel Musson and Her Daughters, Estelle and Désirée

January 6, 1865
Watercolor, with touches of charcoal, brush and red chalk wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
35 × 26.5 cm (13.8 × 10.4 in)

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