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Eternal Idol
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Commissioned from the artist by Eugène Carrière 1900 [through Leopold Blondin] by descent; to Carrière family sold; to Sir Edmund Davis 1907 [via Jean Delvolvé Carrière's son-in-law] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop New York NY 1939 [via Martin Birnbaum] bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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