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Jacques Callot|François Langlois

Frontispiece, from Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre (The Light of the Cloisters), plate 1

1621–35
Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure)
15 × 10.7 cm (5.9 × 4.2 in)

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