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Photographic portrait of Peter Pitt-Millward, at Alphonse Kann's home, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Alphonse Kann (14 March 1870[1] in Vienna – 1948 in London) was a prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage. He was a childhood playmate and adult friend of the writer Marcel Proust, who incorporated several of Kann's features into the character Charles Swann (in Swann in Love).[2]

  1. ^ "Alphonse Kann at Ancestry.com". Ancestry.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
  2. ^ Feliciano, Hector. The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Art, Basic Books, 1997, p. 111. ISBN 0-465-04194-9

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