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"did_you_know": "Small dabs of white paint suggest the reflective shimmer of the sun on the landscape.",
"description": "While many Dutch painters focused on depicting the local countryside, others were inspired by the hilly topography, golden sunlight, and picturesque monuments of Italy. Although Aelbert Cuyp never visited Italy, this serene and beautifully preserved panel demonstrates his skill in evoking the idyllic qualities of a distant land.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 667, no. 56; vol. 9",
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"citation": "Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1908.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: vol 2, p. 143, no. 465",
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"citation": "Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London: Graves, 1913.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 240",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 161-162, fig. 326",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. [14], Plate IV, cat. no. 3; Mention: p. 21, cat. no. 3",
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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.",
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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. 445",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n81"
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"citation": "Gerson, Horst. \"Italy Through Dutch Eyes.\" The Art Quarterly XXVII, no. 3 (1964): 342-353.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 347, fig. 4",
"url": null
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"citation": "University of Michigan. Italy Through Dutch Eyes; Dutch Seventeenth Century Landscape Artists in Italy. 1964.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 29, Reproduced: pl. XII",
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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.",
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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.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n151"
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"citation": "Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands). Vijfentwintig jaar aanwinsten Mauritshuis, 1945-1970. 1970.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 47",
"url": null
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"citation": "Steinborn, Boz\u0307ena. Katalog zbioro\u0301w malarstwa niderlandzkiego. Wroclaw, Poland, 1973.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 34, no. 11",
"url": null
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"citation": "Reiss, Stephen. Aelbert Cuyp. Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1975.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 79, no. 46, colorplate VI",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n181"
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