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Jules Bastien-Lepage

The Little Communicant (La petite communiante)

1848–84
Pen and black ink, black chalk and charcoal, stumped
26.2 × 18.8 cm (10.3 × 7.4 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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