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"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).",
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"title": "Richard Wagner: Visions d'artistes. D'Auguste Renoir \u00e0 Anselm Kiefer",
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"description": "Salon. Palais des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, Paris, France. (1886).",
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"description": "Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, February 21, 1890 (stock number 2636),",
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"did_you_know": "As he will eventually return to reality, Tannh\u00e4user, the singer in the lower left, is painted in dark tones. In contrast, his vision into another realm is evoked by the soft muted hues of Venus and her court.",
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"description": "Tannh\u00e4user, the male figure seated on the left, does not seem fully engaged in this merry scene. Among pale bodies and pastel hues, he alone is cast in shadow. The Wagner opera that inspired the painting centers on a struggle between profane and sacred love, and the tension between them appears embodied in the brooding Tannh\u00e4user.",
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"citation": "Jullien, Adolphe. Fantin-Latour, sa vie et ses amitie\u0301s; lettres ine\u0301dites et souvenirs personnels, avec cinquante-trois reproductions d'\u0153uvres du maitre, tire\u0301es a part, six autographes et vingt-deux illustrations dans le texte. Paris, France: L. Laveur, 1909.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned p. 205",
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"citation": "Fantin-Latour, Victoria. Catalogue de l'\u0153uvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, e\u0301tabli et re\u0301dige\u0301. Paris: H. Floury, 1911.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 130, no. 1254",
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"citation": "Warner, Langdon. \"The Wade Collection.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art IV, no. 1 (January, 1917): 3-8.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced: p. 11",
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"citation": "\"The Wade Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3; reproduced: p. 7",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136053"
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"citation": "McK., W. McC. \"Fantin-Latour Lithographs.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 9 (1920): 135-38.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 136",
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"citation": "Gibson, Frank F. The Art of Henri Fantin-Latour: His Life and Work. London, United Kingdom: Drane's Ltd, 1924.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 65; Mentioned: p. 212-213",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 29",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n30"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 36",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n40"
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"citation": "Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College,1955.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: V. 2, P. 251",
"url": null
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"citation": "Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24, no. 17; Reproduced: pl. LII",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 500",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n92"
},
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"citation": "Curry, Larry. \"Henri Fantin-Latour's Tannhauser on Venusberg.\" Bulletin/Los Angeles County Museum of Art XVI, no. 1 (1964): 3-19.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P.16-18",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 171",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n194"
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"citation": "Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1915-1965. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts,1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 23",
"url": null
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"citation": "Henri Fantin-Latour, 1836-1904; An Exhibition. Northhampton, MA: Smith College, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 21",
"url": null
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"citation": "Trapp, Frank Anderson. \"Fantin-Latour at Smith College.\" The Burlington Magazine 108, no. 760 (July 1966): 393-94.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 394, fig. 80",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/875039."
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 171",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n194"
},
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"citation": "Druick, Douglas W. and Michel Hoog. Fantin-Latour: Exhibition. Ottawa, Ontario: National Gallery of Canada, 1983.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 278",
"url": null
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"citation": "Wardius, Janine N. \"Fantin-Latour's Tannhauser Unveiled: The Previous State of the Painting as Revealed by Infrared Photography.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXVI, no.10 (October, 1989): 280-291.",
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"citation": "Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P.74",
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"citation": "D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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"citation": "Se\u0301rie\u0301, Pierre, Bruno Foucart, and Peter Cooke. La Peinture d'Histoire en France, 1860-1900: La Lyre Ou le Poignard. Paris, France: Arthena Editions, 2014.",
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"citation": "Carr, Carolyn Kinder. Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2009.",
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