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Sleeping Baby

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French

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For this trois-crayons drawing, the artist deployed chalks of three different colors delicately combined. The child is swaddled and wearing a bonnet, with only the face and tiny hands exposed.

Sleeping Baby, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Paris 1755–1842 Paris), Black, white, and red chalks, stumping, on paper

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