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LeFebvre 1874.","credit_line":"George F. Harding Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1983\u201384 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 45.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800\u20131900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 99\u2013100 (ill.), 119.\n\nHollis Clayson, Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991), pp. 51\u201353, fig. 30; reprint (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013).\n\nStephanie Holt, \u201cChloe: A Curious History,\u201d (Ph.D diss, University of Melbourne, 1992), pp. 4\u20136.\n\nStephanie Holt, \u201cChloe: A Curious History,\u201d in Jeanette Hoorn, ed., Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourn University Press, 1994), pp. 118\u2013120, pl. 20. \n\nRuth Bernard Yeazell, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 25, fig. 2.\n\nShalon Detrice Parker, \u201cA Tradition Gone Awry: The Salon Nude in Fin-de-si\u00e8cle France\u201d (Ph.D diss, University of California, Berkeley, 2003), pp. 41\u20133, 228, fig. 17. \n\nShalon Detrice Parker, \u201c\u2018With a Sincere Spirit and Deep Conviction\u201d: Lefebvre\u2019s Lady Godiva and Salon Artistic Culture in Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle France,\u201d Southeastern College Art Conference Review 15, 4 (2009), pp. 422\u201323, fig. 3.\n\nAllison Lee Palmer, Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 143.","exhibition_history":"Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Scent and Symbolism: Perfumed Objects and Images, April 9-July 2, 2017, cat 191.","provenance_text":"Vincent Astor, New York, by 1926; sold, sale of the Astor Residence, American Art Association, New York, April 21, 1926, lot 450, to George F. 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