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Portrait of a Woman in Black

Artist: Ernest-Joseph-Angelon Girard, French, 1813-1898
Medium: Watercolor on paperboard
Place Made: France
Dates: 1855
Dimensions: Image: 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (37.5 x 29.8 cm) Sheet: 17 15/16 x 11 3/4 in. (45.6 x 29.8 cm)
Signature: Signed center right on back of bench: "Ernest/Girard/1855"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 25.423
Credit Line: Caroline H. Polhemus Fund
Image: Overall, 25.423.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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