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Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

L'Endymien

n.d.
Watercolor, with touches of white gouache, on cream wove paper, laid down on rounded shaped cream wove paper, laid down on commercially prepared gray wood pulp board
16.6 × 13.2 cm (6.5 × 5.2 in)

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