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Bibliothèque nationale de France: 2
bpk / Nationalgalerie, SM B / Andres Kilger: 8a
Courtesy of Arthur Kohn: 12e
fabrice lepeltier: 11b
Kunstmuseum Den Haag: 24
Lodewijk van de Winkel: 2b
MBA, Rennes, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Adélaïde Beaudoin: 1a
Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt: 7
Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo: 8
Rik Klein Gotink: 12, 22, 11a
RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski: 9, 5d, 13a, 15c, 15h
RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Jean Schormans: 14c
RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi: 10
RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) - Franck Raux: 4i, 15g
RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) - Michel Urtado: 4g, 4j
RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) - Tony Querrec: 15b, 15i
RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / René-Gabriel Ojeda: 5f
RMN-Grand Palais / Philipp Bernard: 15d
Studio Tromp: 15f
The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence: Bonger’s handwritten notes on Redon fig. d, 5e, 14d, 14g
The National Gallery, London: 10i
The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence: 6, 8b
Van Meurs & Co.: 19, 25, 9c, 11c