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1. Portrait-After a Snuffbox (D’après une tabatière) 1846 Verso: Portrait of a Man Watercolor and pencil on paper 5⅞ x 4⅞ in. (15 x 12.5 cm) Titled and dated on reverse in pencil literature: Bernadac, p. 112, no. 177 (illustrated)

Bernadac suggests that Sand was copying this image from a snuffbox decoration that was done in the style of the 18th portraitist Quentin de la Tour.

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