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Description	Portrait of a free woman of color (previously titled Portrait of Betsy) by François Fleischbein (1801/1803–1868), oil on canvas. This version is following restoration efforts in 2017.
Source	The Historic New Orleans Collection, call number 1985.212.
Date	c. 1837
Author	François Fleischbein
Permission ( Reusing this file)	See below.
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Additional information	References: Not Betsy "Identity theft: A rare painting damaged, a story half-told, and a reckoning about bias in art stewardship", Cleaver, Molly Reid (2022). THNOC Quarterly

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