Clockwise, from left: Félix
Nadar’s “Maria the Antillean”;
Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s
“Portrait of Madeleine”;
Paul Cézanne’s “The Negro
Scipio”; Henri Matisse’s
“Dame à la Robe Blanche”;
and Félix Vallotton’s “Aïcha.”From left: Frederic
Brazille’s “Young
Woman with
Peonies” and
Edouard Manet’s
“Olympia.”AL
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