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Exhibition

* ''Le temps de la peinture : Lyon 1800–1914'', 20 April – 30 July 2007,

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Bibliography

* Sylvie Ramond, Gérard Bruyère and Léna Widerkher, ''Le Temps de la peinture, Lyon 1800–1914'', exhibition catalogue, Fage éditions, Lyon (2007) 335 p.

References

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