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Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges

1874
Watercolor heightened with gouache over traces of graphite on two sheets of blue-gray wove paper (glued together in a vertical seam at left)
29 × 66.4 cm (11.4 × 26.1 in)

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