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Frontispiece, 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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Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel 1957
Title: Frontispiece, 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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