Album Leaf of an Ancestral Portrait
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Album Leaf of an Ancestral Portrait

Classification
Paintings
Medium
Sketch pasted into an accordion fold book; ink and color on paper
Culture
Chinese
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Asian Art

Provenance

Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, purchased from the estate of Rhode Island Senator Theodore Francis Green, July 1968; bequest to Harvard Art Museum

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