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L'Oeil Vigilant (The Watchful Eye), plate 2 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

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Etching; 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: L'Oeil Vigilant (The Watchful Eye), plate 2 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)
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Etching; second state of two (Lieure), Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre.

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