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Interior with Two Figures Dressed in Antique Costume
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Department of Drawings
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar bequest; to Antonio Bianchi 1834. no. 11 in an "album factice" of 408 drawings put together by Wicar and bequeathed to his pupil Bianchi; Margot Gordon and Marcello Aldega New York (the album was taken apart and dispersed by Gordon-Aldega in 1995) sold; to Harvard University Art Museums 1995
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Purchase through the generosity of Kathryn and William W. Robinson and an anonymous donor
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