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A Spanish barber playing the guitar. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after Hippolyte Lecomte.

A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte.

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

A man and a woman seated under a tree, with cattle nearby. Lithograph by H. Lecomte, 1819.

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Hippolyte Lecomte

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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

A man and a woman seated under a tree, with cattle nearby. Lithograph by H. Lecomte, 1819.

A family caught in an avalanche along the Mount St. Bernard Pass; a woman frantically rings the bell thus breaking the cord. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Lecomte.

A Spanish barber playing the guitar. Coloured lithograph by C. de Lasteyrie after Hippolyte Lecomte.