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are very interesting, although he was not himself quite satisfied.”
One of the outcomes of this technique, as Ludovic notes, and a beneficial accident, was
Pissarro’s inability to achieve perfect registration in the successive printing of each of the
plates, therefore imparting a “soft and vague” appearance to the scenes, resembling the
shimmering light and colors in his paintings and pastels. Delteil 119.
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