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"citation": "Baldassari, Francesca. Carlo Dolci. Torino, Italy: Artema, 1995.",
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"citation": "Ellis, Charles S. \"An 18th Century Florentine Provenance for Some Pictures in the Gerini and Cowper Collections.\" Paragone: mensile di arte figurativa e letteratura 83 (January 2009): 71-78.",
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"citation": "Ingendaay Rodio, Martina. I migliori pennelli: i marchesi Gerini mecenati e collezionisti nella Firenze barocca : il palazzo e la galleria, 1600-1825. Milano, Italy: Biblion, 2013.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 316, fig. 207",
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