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Seeking evidence · Portrait Discoverer

Find a Documented Portrait of Janine Lahovary

The later life of Natalie Clifford Barney has fewer readily accessible identified portraits of the people closest to her.

What would help?

An independently attributable photograph of Janine Lahovary with a date or holding institution and permission details.

What we know

Identification and publication rights have not been settled for the candidate photographs in our working research.

Useful search variants: Janine Lahovary; search married and family variants with caution

Please avoid: Portraits without a documented identity or images copied from books without credit.

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