{"data": {"id": 146148, "accession_number": "1971.47", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Basket of Plums, 1769. Anne Vallayer-Coster (French, 1744\u20131818). Oil on canvas; unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1971.47", "current_location": "216B French and German", "title": "Basket of Plums", "creation_date": "1769", "creation_date_earliest": 1769, "creation_date_latest": 1769, "artists_tags": ["female"], "culture": ["France"], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "P - French 18th Century", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Unframed: 38 x 46.2 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"unframed": {"height": 0.38, "height_inch": 14, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 0.462, "width_inch": 18, "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Signed lower right: \"M.elle Vallayer / 1769\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301427, "title": "Year in Review: 1971", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. 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National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (June 30-September 22, 2002); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (October 13, 2002-January 5, 2003); Frick Collection, New York, NY (January 21-March 23, 2003); Centre de la Vieille Charit\u00e9, Marseille, France (April 9-June 23, 2003).", "opening_date": "2002-06-30T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Salon, </em>Paris, France (1771).", "opening_date": null}, {"description": "<em>English, French, Italian, Netherlandish, Spanish, and German Art</em>, National museum, Stockholm, Sweden (1918).", "opening_date": "1918-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Three Centuries of Still Life</em>, G\u00f6teborg Art Museum, Sweden, (April 28-May 17, 1938).", "opening_date": "1938-04-28T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Five Centuries of French Art</em>, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (15 August-9 November).", "opening_date": null}, {"description": "<em>Luis Melendez: Bodegones</em>, Museo Nacional del Prado. 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Stjernsward, Sakanor, Sweden", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1938", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "(Sale: Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1970, no. 4)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "June 24, 1970", "sortorder": 6}, {"description": "[Old Masters Gallery, London, England]", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 7}, {"description": "[H. 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The colors are vivid reds and violets and a sense of immediacy is invoked by the growing moss, the cakes in their crisp papers, and the glass of water with its sparkling highlights and reflections.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60471904"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1971.47-basket-of-plums"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Paris, Salon, 1771.", "page_number": "cat. no. 147", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800.</em> Paris: Liepmannssohn et Dufour, 1869. .", "page_number": "p. 29, no. 147;", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Engelska, franska, italienska, nederla\u0308ndska, spanka och tyska konstverk: Utst. 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