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  • Berthe Morisot: The Artist's Sister, Edma, with Her Daughter, Jeanne
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    …of sketches in London with leadpoint drawings on tinted paper is a particularly valuable example of this technique, even if individual portions and, indeed, entire pages that had become effected were drawn over long ago. One can see little more than the traces left by the pencil because, as in…

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    …of sketches in London with leadpoint drawings on tinted paper is a particularly valuable example of this technique, even if individual portions and, indeed, entire pages that had become effected were drawn over long ago. One can see little more than the traces left by the pencil because, as in…

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