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Melanie, or The Disastrous Monastic Coercion, Robbert Muys, 1770 - 1825, In the room of a monastery, two women support a young woman, Melanie. Behind them stand three nuns and a mourning man sits. On the left two men. In the background view of a chapel. The print depicts a stage scene from Melanie, or The Disastrous Monastic Coercion, a mourning play by Jean-François de La Harpe about Melanie, who is forced by her father to renounce her love for a man and enter the convent., print maker: Robbert Muys, (mentioned on object), publisher: Cornelis van Hoogeveen junior, (mentioned on object
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