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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Design for a coffered ceiling with painted initials: SRI (?)

1840–97
graphite, pen and ink, watercolor and gold paint on wove paper; inlaid in blue wove paper

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