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The Cipher of Love
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Drawings
J.P. Heseltine (sale London Sotheby's 27-29 May 1935 no. 239 repr. as Géricault; L. 1508); Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop 1935; bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop 1943
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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