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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Design for an Oval Ceiling, probably for Pless Residence

second half 19th century
Graphite and brush with brown wash; squaring in graphite on laid paper
34.1 × 49.2 cm (13.4 × 19.4 in)

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