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Jacques Callot|François Langlois

La Religieuse Tenant La Sainte Croix (The Nun Holds the Cross), from Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre (The Light of the Cloisters), plate 21

1621–35
Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure)
14.9 × 10.7 cm (5.9 × 4.2 in)

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