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Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion
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Busch-Reisinger Museum
Prince Lichnowsky Kuchelna and Berlin. Fritz Hess Berlin-Dahlem (? - 1931); his sale [Galerie Fischer Lucerne September 1 1931 cat. no. 10]; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Kuhn Cambridge MA (1931-1961) gift; to Charles L. Kuhn III St. Louis MO (1961-2000) bequest; to Busch-Reisinger Museum Cambridge MA.
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Gift of Dr. Charles and Nobuko Kuhn in honor of Charles L. Kuhn Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum 1930-1968
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