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Hippolyte Camille Delpy
Paysage aux lavandieres - Barbizon Oil, River in Landscape by Hippolyte Delpy

1872

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    Oil on panel by French painter Henri Duhem depicting boats on the canal at sunset and figures walking on the path alongside. Signed lower right and dated February 1907 verso. This pa...
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