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A Modern Magdalen

(American, 1849–1916)
about 1888
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
DimensionsHeight x width: 19 x 15 1/2 in. (48.3 x 39.4 cm)
Framed: 76.2 x 64.8 cm (30 x 25 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from a Bequest of Susan Greene Dexter in memory of Charles and Martha Babcock Amory, Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, and the Robert Jordan Fund
Accession number2007.7
On View
On view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceMarch 6, 1891, sold by the artist, Ortigies and Co. at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, lot 28, sold for $110 to Charles Townsend Van Santvoord (b. 1854 – d. 1895), New York. February 8-9, 1982, anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, lot 238 (as “Nude in an Interior”), lot 238, to Richard Manoogian, Detroit; November, 1985, sold by Manoogian through Joan Michelman, New York. November 29, 2006, anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 132, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 24, 2007)
Conservation Status: After Treatment
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