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Louis Jean Desprez

Design for the Decoration of the Altar to be erected during the Holy Week, Dedicated to Monseigneur Christophe de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris

1769
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47.1 × 33.9 cm (18.5 × 13.3 in)

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