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The Wood Chopper (Le coup de grace) by Ferdinand Hodler — VisualArtsDB

The Wood Chopper (Le coup de grace)

The Wood Chopper (Le coup de grace)

Ferdinand Hodler

1905–1915

Medium: Colored inks, graphite and colored pencil on off-white wove paper
Dimensions: actual: 42.5 x 32.5 cm (16 3/4 x 12 13/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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