DETAILS
- Artist
- Henri Fantin-Latour
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image: 32.2 × 43 cm (12 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 46.6 × 61 cm (18 3/8 × 24 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- France
- Credit line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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