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woman by Simon Maris, titled "Young Negro-Girl", which was retrospectively changed to "Young Woman with a Fan". The project, which expected to change the descriptions or titles of over 220,000 artworks, was the subject of a debate over the importance of preserving historical context versus maximising
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The subject in the painting had previously been described by the art dealer Jan C. Schuller as "little negress" during an exhibition in 1908. A newspaper at the time described the portrait as "the superbly painted 'Little
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The name of the painting intended by Maris himself was revealed in a 1907 letter, where he labeled the piece "Isabella (negress)", along with an inscription on an early version of the artwork that titles it as simply "Isabella". Due to this discovery, the
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in her right hand, and her left hand is touching the fan's golden
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