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Woman Holding Two Tablets (the Cumaean Sibyl?)

(Italian (Venetian), 1487–1553)
1530s
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions91.2 x 78.1 cm (35 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Major Henry Lee Higginson in memory of Edward H. Hooper
Accession number01.6215
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
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ProvenanceMay 2, 1901, sold by Haskard's Bank, Florence, and Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849 - d. 1919), London, to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London (stock no. 9867) [see note]; July 1901, sold by Agnew to Henry Lee Higginson (b. 1834 - d. 1919), Boston; 1901, gift of Henry Lee Higginson to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1901)

NOTE: Haskard's formed a joint partnership with Agnew and Murray around 1900. See David B. Elliott, Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite (Lewes, 2000), 188.
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