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Bashkirtseff and Louise Breslau at the Académie Julian.” In Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian, edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg and Jane R. Becker, 69–113. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
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Malerin Louise Catherine Breslau 1856–1927. Diss. U. Hamburg, 1988. Biographie u. Werkanalyse zur Erlangung der Würde des Doktors der Philosophie der Universität Hamburg. Hamburg,
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Lepdor, Catherine, Anne-Catherine Krüger, and
Gabriel P. Weisberg. Louise Breslau: de l'impressionnisme aux années folles. Lausanne: Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, 2001.
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