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Natalie with Violin

painting

Alice Pike Barney painted Natalie holding a violin. The image connects a family portrait with the artistic world in which Natalie grew up, while leaving the circumstances of the sitting to documentary evidence.

Record type: painting

Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum · 1952.13.48

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