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Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440.
Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, ca. 1406–1469).
Tempera on wood, 25 ¼ x 16 ½ in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm).
Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (89.15.19)
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