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"title": "Drawings",
"description": "Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).",
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"title": "Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection",
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"title": "Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings",
"description": "Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979).",
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"description": "Possibly Count Alexandre Stroganov [1733-1811], St. Petersburg",
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"According to artist's inscription on sheet.
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"As Fragonard.
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"footnotes": [
"Sold as Fragonard: \"Un dessin \u00e0 la plume et au lavis, au bistre, repr\u00e9sentant un escalier sous des vo\u00fbtes.\"
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"description": "(Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
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"description": "The inscription on the panel over the arched doorway seems to refer to Robert's Russian patron, Count Alexandre Sergevitch Stroganov, who was in Paris between 1770 and 1779 and commissioned a series of monumental paintings from Robert.",
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"citation": "Sizer, Theodore. \"A Drawing by Hubert Robert.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 9 (November 1927): 143-144.",
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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.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n59"
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"citation": "Duvivier, Brett. \"Intimate Aspects of Hubert Robert.\" International Studio (February 1928): pp. 74-79.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry Sayles. \"Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 10 (December 1932): 166-169.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Exh. Cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1935.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Shoolman, Regina and Charles Slatkin. Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1950.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 96; Reproduced: plate 53",
"url": null
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"citation": "Boucher, Franc\u0327ois and Philippe Jaccottet. Le dessin franc\u0327ais au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle. Lausanne: Mermod, 1952.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 177; Reproduced: plate 102",
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"citation": "Eighteenth Century Masterpieces. Exh. Cat. Palm Beach, FL: Society of the Four Arts, 1952.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 29",
"url": null
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"'Roman Ruins, Villa Pamfili': A Water-Color Drawing by Hubert Robert.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 1 (January 1956): 9-11.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 9",
"url": null
},
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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. 592",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n111"
},
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"citation": "Milliken, William. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 129",
"url": null
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"citation": "Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessine\u0301 de Jean-Honore\u0301 Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonne\u0301. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1961.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 3, p. 109, no. 1527",
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},
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"citation": "Berckenhagen, Ekhart. Die Franzo\u0308sischen Zeichnungen der Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin: B. Hessling, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 333, under no. 6590",
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},
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"citation": "Carlson, Victor. Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1978.",
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},
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"citation": "Deriabina, Ekaterina. \"Hubert Robert et les collectionneurs russes.\" In. Hubert Robert et Saint-Pe\u0301tersbourg, 1733-1808: Les commandes de la famille impe\u0301riale et des princes russes entre 1773 et 1802, 93-107. Exh. Cat. Paris: Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 1999.",
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"citation": "Rosenberg, Pierre and Marie-Anne Dupuy. Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napole\u0301on. Exh. Cat. Paris: Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 1999.",
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"citation": "Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope. Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family. Exh. Cat. Portland: Portland Art Museum, 2000.",
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