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"title": "Stefanina Primicile Carafa, Marchioness of Cicerale and Duchess of Montejasi",
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"title": "Degas: The Portraits",
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Although best remembered for his depictions of ballet dancers and race horses, Degas painted many likenesses of his family members. He probably painted this portrait of his aunt, Stefania Carafa (1819\u20131901), during an extended visit to Naples, where many of his relatives lived. Described in family papers as a highly indulged, fun-loving child, the duchess grew into the stoic, world-weary woman depicted here. No expensive finery reveals her high social rank; indeed she wears a mourning dress, possibly to observe the recent death of her brother Achille.",
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"citation": "Frankfurter, Alfred M. \"Collectors and Million-Dollar Taste.\" ARTnews 52 (March 1953): 24-25.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 25",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: v. 2, p. 72",
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"citation": "Boggs, Jean Sutherland. \"Edgar Degas and Naples.\" The Burlington Magazine 105 (June 1963): 273-276.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 275, fig. 36",
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"citation": "Mastai, M. L. D. \u201cPortraiture from Titian to Degas at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d Connoisseur 154 (October 1963): 133\u201334.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman. \"Style, Truth, and the Portrait.\" Art in America 51, no. 5 (October 1963): 28-29.",
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"citation": "\"The Artist's View of Man: Portraiture Through Four Centuries.\" Illustrated London News 243 (October 5, 1963): 521.",
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"citation": "\"Berichte.\" Pantheon 22 (1964): 55-57.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Taft Museum. Small Paintings from Famous Collections, [Exhibition], The Taft Museum, April 4 - June 7, 1981. [Cincinnati, Ohio]: [The Museum], 1981.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 13",
"url": null
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"citation": "Hanson, Anne Coffin. \"Edward Hopper, American Meaning and French Craft.\" Art Journal 41, no. 2 (1981): 142-49.",
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"citation": "Brame, Philippe, Theodore Reff, and Paul-Andr\u00e9 Lemoisne. Degas Et Son Oeuvre A Supplement. New York: Garland, 1984.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Degas: [an Exhibition Held at the] Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 9 February-16 May 1988, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 16 June-28 August 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 27 September 1988-8 January 1989. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 253, fig. 125",
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"citation": "Degas, Edgar, Felix Andreas Baumann, Marianne Karabelnik, and Jean Sutherland Boggs. Degas: Portraits. London: Merrell Holberton, 1994.",
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"citation": "D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"citation": "Dwyer Modestini, Dianne, and Mario Modestini. Masterpieces: Based on a Manuscript by Mario Modestini. Fiesole (Firenze) : Cadmo, 2018.",
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"citation": "Degas, Edgar, Adriano Pedrosa, Fernando Oliva, and Sofia Borges. Degas: Dance, Politics and Society. 2021, 322.",
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