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Jacques Callot|François Langlois

L'Oeil Vigilant (The Watchful Eye), from Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre (The Light of the Cloisters), plate 2

1621–35
Etching; second state of two (Lieure)
7 × 9.4 cm (2.8 × 3.7 in)

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