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The Genius of Liberty and Wisdom
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Duc de Rivoli; his sale Me Petit Laneuville "expert " Paris April 18-19 1834 no. 60 (as "L'Amour admirant le buste de la Sagesse"); M.G. . . (per illegible inscription on back of cardboard support); Pierre-Jules Mène by 1872; his son-in-law Auguste Nicholas Cain by 1884; his son Georges Cain Paris by 1900; Mme Georges Can by 1922; Cain sale Hôtel Drouot Paris March 9-10 1939 no. 68 (as "Le Génie de la Liberté ou La Sagesse"); acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop April 1939 (Fr 20 000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1943.
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