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C.H. de Villeneuve was a painter who served as an assistant to [[Philipp Franz von Siebold|Philipp von Siebold]], chief medical officer for the [[Dutch East India Company]] in Japan.

Villeneuve was accompanied to Japan in [[1825]] by his wife, Mimi. Though she was forced by shogunate authorities to leave the country very shortly after her arrival, in the short duration between her arrival and departure, she attracted considerable attention. Three women attached to [[Jan Cock Blumhoff]], who resided in [[Dejima]] for a few months in [[1817]], were the only other non-East-Asian women seen in Japan since [[1661]].

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