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Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
The artist; to Jean-Antoine Voltaire [1] gift; to M. Lacombe 1812 bequesated to M. Th.-J.-B. Prieur bequest; to Hippolyte Prieru. Marquis de Biron sold [Paris June 1914]; to Therese Kuhn Straus New York 1914 gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1978
Notes
[1] According to family legend. See 1914 sale catalogue
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband Herbert N. Straus Harvard Class of 1903
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