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Louis Auguste Lepère

The Laundresses, from the third album of L'Estampe Originale

1894
Soft ground etching with aquatint and roulette from three plates of ochre, red and blue on cream wove paper
38.3 × 21.6 cm (15.1 × 8.5 in)

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