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Paul-César Helleu

Mademoiselle Ellen Helleu

c. 1897
Red chalk and black chalk, with incising, heightened with white pastel and white pastel mixed with red chalk, on cream wove Japanese paper
32.6 × 30.6 cm (12.8 × 12 in)

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