Jean-François MILLET La Fileuse auvergnate, 1869, etching, 19.5 x 12.8 cm, margins about 23 x 15.5 cm (Delteil 20 iv/v), a fine proof with the star on the right and the five lines in the upper left corner, before publication in Sonnets and Eaux-fortes, small flaws and slight retouching in graphite in the right corners, slight right corners, slight trace of matting, not examined out of the frame.

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