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Jean Jacottet
Read more...Swiss painter, engraver. Worked in Paris and Bonneville. Contributed lithographs to Giuseppe Daziaro’s series of views of Moscow and St Petersburg. Lithographed the drawings of Vasily Sadovnikov and ...
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