The Spleen (Melancholy) - Ch. Boirau (1915) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Blanche Hoschedé Monet (10 November 1865 – 8 December 1947) was a French painter who was both the stepdaughter and the daughter-in-law of Claude Monet....
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