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The Seamstress by Henri Matisse — VisualArtsDB

The Seamstress

The Seamstress

1900

Medium: Fabricated black chalk, with touches of pen and black ink, on cream wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper
Dimensions: 30.9 × 21.7 cm (12 3/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Genre: chalk
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)chalkprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)wove paper

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