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The Saving of the Infant Pyrrhus (left half)
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Martin Carlsson purchased from the Stockholm stads bokauktion 1953. Auction purchase May 29 1953. Inscriptions on some of the prints in this album were deciphered by Ulf Cederlöf who identified the hand as that of Carlsson. This print was bound with other prints after Poussin paintings in a late 17th-early 18th c. French album (binding fragments in print dept. files/GB on techniques) and other of the prints had also an unidentified brown ink paraph. See correspondence with object file.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of James A. Bergquist
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