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Portrait of Loie Fuller as a Butterfly

(American, 1853–1925)
1901
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 29.5 x 17.8 cm (11 5/8 x 7 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number2013.1667
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Provenance1901, the artist; sold at an unknown date to Dr. Robert Bunting, Boston; September 20, 2013, sold at Skinner Inc., Boston, to the MFA . (Accession Date: November 20, 2013).

The photography representative at Skinner's (Michelle Lamuniere) asked the Buntings where they acquired this work, and they don't recall, but it may have come from Norman Crider.
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