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Trompe-l’oeil-Portrait of Conrad Cramm
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Department of Drawings
[Auktionhaus Galerie Vogler Basel December 2012 lot 339]. Private Collection Switzerland. [Galerie Fischer Lucerne June 17 2015 lot 1334]. [Martin Graessle Kunsthandel Munich] sold; to Peter Soriano New York 2016 gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2023
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81
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