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Louis Léopold Boilly

Woman in Front of a Fireplace

c. 1805–7
black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The Egypt-inspired decor throughout the interior seen in this drawing was especially fashionable in early 19th-century France.

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