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La Lettrice

(Swiss, 1868–1933)
1916-1918
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut
DimensionsSheet: 30 × 40.2 cm (11 13/16 × 15 13/16 in.)
Image: 24.6 × 30 cm (9 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Credit LineIrving W. and Charlotte F. Rabb Fund for the Acquisition of Prints and Drawings
Accession number2018.3159
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn brown ink, l.r.: Giovanni Giacometti
ProvenanceMay 10, 2012, anonymous sale, Dobiaschofsky Auktionen, Bern, lot 1545, to August Laube Buch- und Kunstantiquariat, Zürich; 2018, sold by August Laube to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)
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