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Painting by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William_Merritt_Chase" title="William Merritt Chase">William Merritt Chase</a>. Chase visited Italy 1877-1878 but the painting was dated 1879. A newspaper clipping notes that he had a mandolin among the props he used to make his paintings.<sup id="cite_ref-globe_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globe-1">[1]</a></sup></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Merritt_Chase" class="extiw" title="w:en:William Merritt Chase"><span title="American painter (1849-1916)">William Merritt Chase</span></a>
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1879<sup id="cite_ref-globe_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globe-1">[1]</a></sup>
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