Item 1: Portrait of Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), 1884 by John Singer Sargent, American born in Florence in 1856, died in London 1925.
Item 2: The Black Sash (Ava Lister, Baroness Ribblesdale), 1905 by Giovanni Boldini, an Italian born in Ferrara in 1842, died in Paris in 1931.
Could it be the name "Ribblesdale"?
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While I'm not exactly sure why, I keep thinking of an Emily Dickinson poem that suggests a possible answer:
"The thought beneath so slight a film
Is more distinctly seen, --
As laces just reveal the surge,
Or mists the Apennine."
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