Maxime Lalanne

View from the Viaduct at the Pont-du-Jour, Panorama de la Seine

1870–71 · etching

View from the Viaduct at the Pont-du-Jour, Panorama de la Seine, Lalanne, 1870–71
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lalanne, View from the Viaduct at the Pont-du-Jour, Panorama de la Seine, 1870–71. etching.

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Gordon K. Mott

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