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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds and flowering vines

1830–97
graphite, pen and ink, watercolor on wove paper
20.3 × 26.8 cm (8 × 10.6 in)

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