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Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

View of the Lac d’Espingo and the Cirque d’Espingo in the Pyrenees

Aug. 21, 1865
Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on blue-gray wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper
28.4 × 46.7 cm (11.2 × 18.4 in)

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