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"description": "Possibly Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle (according to \"Verzeichnis der Gem\u00e4lde f\u00fcr die Winterhalter-Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle zu Baden [October 1873],\" published in Wild 1894, 57, no. 42, Portr\u00e4t I. K. H. der Grossherzogin Sophie).",
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