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"tombstone": "Self-Portrait, c. 1812. Joseph Paelinck (Belgian, 1781\u20131839). Oil on canvas; framed: 114 x 94.5 x 7.5 cm (44 7/8 x 37 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 89 x 69.3 cm (35 1/16 x 27 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Elisabeth Ireland and Robert Livingston Ireland Jr., in memory of their mother, Mrs. Perry W. Harvey, 1937.575",
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"measurements": "Framed: 114 x 94.5 x 7.5 cm (44 7/8 x 37 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 89 x 69.3 cm (35 1/16 x 27 5/16 in.)",
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"id": 312374,
"title": "Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs",
"description": "Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-March 7, 1940).",
"opening_date": "1940-02-07T05:00:00"
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"id": 315650,
"title": "An Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross and of Small Pictures by Members of The Ontario Society of Artists",
"description": "An Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross and of Small Pictures by Members of The Ontario Society of Artists. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (co-organizer) (November 15-December 15, 1940).",
"opening_date": "1940-11-15T05:00:00"
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"id": 312341,
"title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
"description": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
"opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"
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"id": 312333,
"title": "French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections",
"description": "French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).",
"opening_date": "1942-01-06T05:00:00"
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"id": 312176,
"title": "19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans",
"description": "19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).",
"opening_date": "1943-06-22T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 300853,
"title": "Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter",
"description": "Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).",
"opening_date": "1956-03-08T05:00:00"
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"description": "The Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat. The Detroit Institute of Arts (October 1927), no. 77, Ingres, Portrait of a Young Man. Canvas: 27 \u00bd inches by 36 inches. Lent by the Erlich Galleries.",
"opening_date": "1927-10-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "New York, Ehrich Galleries. (1929).",
"opening_date": "1929-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "cma. French Art since Eighteen Hundred (1929), CMA Bulletin 16 (1929): 159.",
"opening_date": "1929-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute. A Survey of French Painting (1936), no. 11 (repr.), Ingres, Portrait of a Man, lent by Mrs. Perry W. Harvey.",
"opening_date": "1936-01-01T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "cma. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. (1936), no. 283 (repr.).",
"opening_date": "1936-01-01T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exhibition. Masterworks of Five Centuries (1939), no. 120 (repr.) (as Ingres).",
"opening_date": "1939-01-01T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "cma. Masterpieces of Art from New York and San Francisco World's Fair (1940), no. 41.",
"opening_date": "1940-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Toledo Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto. The Spirit of Modern France. An Essay on Painting in Society 1745-1946 (1946-47), no. 15, A Gentleman of Rome 1807-1811.",
"opening_date": "1946-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cincinnati, Taft Museum. The Regency, Empire, and Directoire Periods (1947), no cat.",
"opening_date": "1947-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Detroit Institute of Arts. French Painting from David to Courbet (1950), no. 21 (as Ingres).",
"opening_date": "1950-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Buffalo, N.Y., Albright Art Gallery. Forerunners of Modern Painting (1952); see Gallery Notes (May-October 1952), 10 (repr.) (as Ingres), 13-14 (repr.).",
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"description": "Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi collection, Rome. Sold 1926 to Ehrich Galleries, New York. Bought by Mrs. Perry W. Harvey, Cleveland, 1929. Given to the CMA in 1937.",
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"description": "Born in a small village in Belgium, Paelinck attended a local drawing academy as a youth. His skill earned him a scholarship to study in Paris where he worked with Jacques-Louis David (1748\u20131825), the leading French neoclassical master and official court painter of Napoleon I. Paelinck later moved to Rome to study ancient art firsthand and to participate in the city's lively international art scene. Paelinck's attire shows him as a dandy, wearing fashionable, subtly colored clothes. Over his black suit, he wears a box-coat\u2014a garment having a wide, velvet collar originally associated with coachmen but popular among artists in Rome during the early 19th century. The coat demonstrates Paelinck's skill at depicting textures. Likewise, the simplicity of his desk and chair\u2014based on ancient Greek and Roman models\u2014reflects the highest fashion of the time.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"'Portrait of a Man' by Ingres.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art no 25, no. 7 (July 1938): 135-137",
"page_number": "Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 135",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Loans to Important Exhibitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 123; Reproduced: p. 127",
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"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Silver Jubilee Exhibition.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 106",
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"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n40"
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"biography": "Born in Oostakker, a village near Gent, Joseph Paelinck first studied at the Gent Drawing Academy. In 1802 he won the academy prize, enabling him to leave for Paris. There he enrolled in David's (q.v.) workshop, where he studied until 1806 before returning to Belgium. In 1808 he left for Rome and stayed there through 1812. During this period he regularly sent his paintings to exhibitions in Gent, thus establishing his reputation. After the fall of Napoleon, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was created in 1815, which included the present-day countries of Belgium and the Netherlands, and King William I ascended the throne. Paelinck soon was inundated with official commissions, portraits as well as historical, mythological, and religious subjects. He moved from Gent to Brussels, where a second court was established in addition to the royal family's principal residence in The Hague. His most famous paintings, La belle Anthia (1820, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Gent) and La toilette de Psyche (1823, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), recall David's style during his years of exile in Brussels. At the time of David's death in 1825, ideas and taste had significantly evolved. The new bourgeoisie in power sought other subjects in another style, and Paelinck's neoclassical works became undesirable and were replaced by a more romantic art. After the break-up of the kingdom and Belgium's independence in 1830, he even contemplated going into exile because his liaison with the Dutch court was viewed with hostility in the new Belgium. Having outlived his own painting style, Paelinck died in Brussels in 1839 at age fifty-eight.",
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