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Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
[Silvano Lodi Lugano by 1970]. [Bruno Meissner Zurich]. [Bob Habdolt & Co. Paris and New York by 1985] sold; to a private collector by 1989 [with "Reclining Male Nude"]. Vermeer Associates Ltd. [through Sotheby's New York 1995 Sale 6654 lot 66] sold; to Harvard Art Museums 1997.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Kate Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund Janine Luke The Louis Agassiz Shaw Bequest and William and Ami Danoff in honor of Seymour Slive
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