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Night Scene, Rotterdam
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
The artist Johan Barthold Jongkind sold; to Oscar Simon. Mrs. Simpson sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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