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Herodias Receiving the Head of John the Baptist
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Department of Prints
Moritz von Kuffner Vienna Collector. Von Kuffner was a later 19th-c. collector. His family retained the collection until recently and has been selling the prints through Artemis the firm from whom the museum purchased this print in 2003.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Acquisition Fund for Prints
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