Le Rémouleur (The Knife Grinder)

Auguste-Louis Lepère French

1889

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Title: Le Rémouleur (The Knife Grinder)
Artist: Auguste-Louis Lepère (French, Paris 1849–1918 Domme)
Date: 1889
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 6 11/16 × 4 1/2 in. (17 × 11.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 8 3/8 in. (28.4 × 21.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1948
Object Number: 48.180.31
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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