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Young Woman Carrying a Child on Her Right Shoulder
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Comtesse Montesquiou-Fezensac Paris sold [through her sale Hôtel Drouot no. 122 Paris]. Carlos G. de Candamo sold [through Galerie Charpentier no. 71 Paris 1934]. Therese Kuhn (Mrs. Herbert N.) Straus New York NY gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1978.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband Herbert N. Straus Harvard Class of 1903
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