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

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Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure), Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre
Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel 1957
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Title: La Religieuse Tenant La Sainte Croix (The Nun Holds the Cross), plate 21 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)
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Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure), Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre.

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