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Venus and Adonis
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Charles-Philippe Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel Paris and Bellême (his mark L.2073 lower left black ink); his sale Paris Drouot (P. Roblin) possibly part of lots 290-92; Louis Deglatigny Rouen (his mark L.1768a lower left red ink); his sale Paris Drouot (Féral Catroux et Huteau) 4–5 November 1937 lot 234 (as Sébastien Le Clerc); Galerie Arnoldi–Livie Munich (as Antoine Dieu as of 1990); Galerie Moatti Paris (as of 1992); Vermeer Associates Limited Brampton Ontario sold; to Harvard University Art Museums 1993 inv. no. 1993.255
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum The Kate Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund
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