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Natalie at Ten

painting

Carolus-Duran painted Natalie as a child in Paris. The portrait belongs to the visual record of her early life and should be read as an artist's representation, not as evidence of her later character.

Record type: painting

Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum · 1972.181.2

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