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Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Design for a ceiling painted with trompe l'oeil clouds

1830–97
watercolor, gouache, and gold paint on wove paper
37.5 × 26.3 cm (14.8 × 10.4 in)

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