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A Widow

(French, 1815–1879)
1840
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions92.1 x 73.6 cm (36 1/4 x 29 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow
Accession number23.499
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left: T. Couture. / 1840
ProvenanceBy 1892, Ferdinand Barbédienne, Paris, France; sold by Barbédienne at Tual, Duchesne, Paris, June 2, 1892 [lot 26]. By 1894, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1845 - d. 1921), Boston; 1923, bequeathed by Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)
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