Nursemaids: "Les Bonnes du Luxembourg" — James McNeill Whistler | DiscoverArt

James McNeill Whistler

Nursemaids: "Les Bonnes du Luxembourg"

1894

Transfer lithograph, printed in black ink on fine cream laid paper removed from an old ledger; second state of two (Chicago)

20.2 × 15.8 cm (8 × 6.2 in)

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