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Hercules and the Lion
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
[Ferroni Rome] sold; to Edward Waldo Forbes Cambridge 1906 gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1950
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Edward W. Forbes
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