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Gustave Moreau

L'Inspiration

c. 1893
Watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board
29.9 × 23 cm (11.8 × 9.1 in)

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