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"title": "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints",
"description": "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).",
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"title": "Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800",
"description": "Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 3-May 15, 2005); Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY (September 13-December 3, 2005).",
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"title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings",
"description": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).",
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"description": "This etching served as the frontispiece for Jean de Jullienne\u2019s The Works of Antoine Watteau (L\u2019Oeuvre d\u2019Antoine Watteau). Early in his career, Boucher reproduced more than 100 etchings of Watteau\u2019s works for the publication, learning to emulate his elegant draftsmanship. This had a lasting effect on the young artist, as is evident in a comparison of Boucher\u2019s Andromeda with Watteau\u2019s The Clothes Are Italian, both on view nearby. The tribute to Watteau inscribed below the portrait translates: Watteau, adorned by Nature with happy talents,Was very grateful for the gifts she gave him:Never has another hand painted her more beautifully,Nor been known to display her with features so gallant.",
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"citation": "Zorach, Rebecca, and Elizabeth Rodini. Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800. Chicago, Ill: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2005.",
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"citation": "Beeny, Emily A., Davide Gasparotto, Richard Rand, and Antoine Watteau. Watteau at Work: La Surprise. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 1-2, fig. 1.",
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