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Mademoiselle Claus Dept: The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has raised 8 million $12.5 million Cdn to buy Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus , painted in 1868, according to CBC. The subject of the portrait is Fanny Claus, a close friend of Manet's wife Suzanne Leenhoff and a public fundraising campaign to keep a 19th Century painting by French impressionist artist Edouard Manet in Britain has been successful. Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus by Edouard Manet. Britons donated more than $1.68 million to keep it in the country. British Department of Culture, Media and Sport The painting has been in Britain since its sale following the artist's death in 1884, but last year it was sold to a foreign collector for $44 million. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.