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Life is Hard, plate twelve from Miserere by Georges Rouault — VisualArtsDB

Life is Hard, plate twelve from Miserere

Life is Hard, plate twelve from Miserere

Georges Rouault

1945

Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: Image/plate: 48 × 36.1 cm (18 15/16 × 14 1/4 in.); Sheet: 65.4 × 50.5 cm (25 3/4 × 19 15/16 in.)
Genre: etching
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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