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Ash Wednesday by Carl Spitzweg — VisualArtsDB

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

1860

Dimensions: 14 × 21 cm
Genre: Genre painting
Museum: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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Christianityrituals-and-traditions

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