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This portrait is unfinished and its sitter, previously thought to be Eliza Bonaparte (1777 - 1820), has not been identified. The canvas was first used to sketch the beginning of a composition later abandoned: a figure of a naked man can still be seen under the paint surface. Both compositions are not necessarily by the same hand. It was once attributed to Jacques-Louis David and has been claimed as both French and Italian.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><small><div class="reflist" style="list-style-type: decimal;">
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19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26492677#P571" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>
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