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Count Priuli Bonn, Venice; anonymous sale, Christie’s London, July 9, 1926, to Elson; anonymous sale, Christie’s London, June 8, 1928, lot 82, to Howell; Museum Galleries, London (in 1940); [in a letter of 1953 to an unnamed recipient, in the museum files, Ludwig Burchard authenticates the painting and mentions first seeing it in 1944, but does not mention where]; anonymous sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 9, 1959, lot 189; C. Michael Paul, Palm Beach (until 1970; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).;

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