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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Design for a ceiling with trompe l'oeil balustrade and putti

second half 19th century
Graphite and watercolor
34.6 × 49.7 cm (13.6 × 19.6 in)

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