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Design for the decoration of a coffered ceiling ornamented with the name "Racine" and entwined letters: DD

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise
Credit: Dodge Fund, 1967
Second half 19th century
Graphite, watercolor and gouache on wove paper
21.3 x 27.4in
67.827.136
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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