Jules-Eugène Lenepveu

Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polynices

1835–98
Watercolor, pen and black ink over black chalk, on gray-green paper
27.4 × 35.3 cm (10.8 × 13.9 in)

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