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Eros Lifting a Torch
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Mrs. Therese Kuhn Straus New York (by 1977) sold; through the Estate (1977-1979) to; the Fogg Art Museum 1979.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum David M. Robinson Fund through the Estate of Therese K. Straus
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