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for either 160,000 or 170,000 francs. On June 14, 1913, it was again sold at the
Galerie Georges Petit for 145,000 francs. On June 23, 1922, it was sold for the final time at the Galerie Georges Petit for 62,000 francs to
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of someone who was not a member of court; previously, equestrian portraits had been restricted to only the high nobility and royalty, but in this period in the
Netherlands, this was changing, and Cuyp and his father,
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