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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Woman as Diana, 1752. Jean-Marc Nattier (French, 1685\u20131766). Oil on canvas; framed: 127.5 x 107.5 x 10 cm (50 3/16 x 42 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 100.4 x 79.5 cm (39 1/2 x 31 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.643",
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"inscription": "signed lower left: Nattier P.x. / 1752",
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"title": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries",
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"description": "Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).",
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"title": "Style, Truth and the Portrait",
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"title": "France in the 18th Century",
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"title": "Jean Marc Nattier (1685-1766)",
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"description": "Comte de Pimodan (probably Georges Pimodan [1822-1860]), Paris",
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"date": "Before 1860",
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"description": "Madame Dhainaut",
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""
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"did_you_know": "The sitter was once thought to be King Louis XV\u2019s daughter Henriette or his mistress Madame de Pompadour. Today, her identity is unknown.",
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"description": "For many years, this sitter was identified as Madame de Pompadour, but she bears little resemblance to this pivotal figure in French art and politics of the mid 1700s. Nattier specialized in portraits of women in mythological guises\u2014in this case, the bow, quiver, and leopard skin, all attributes of Diana, goddess of the hunt.",
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"citation": "Renard, Philippe, and Jean-Marc Nattier. Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766): un artiste parisien a\u0300 la cour de Louis XV. Saint-Re\u0301my-en-l'Eau: Monelle Hayot, 1999.",
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Salmon, Xavier. Jean Marc Nattier: 1685-1766. Paris: Re\u0301union des Muse\u0301es Nationaux, 1999.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cTwo Portraits by Aved and Gros.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 8 (October 1964): 196\u2013205.",
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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/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
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"citation": "Landau, Ellen G. \u201c\u2018A Fairytale Circumstance\u2019 the Influence of Stage Design on the Work of Fran\u00e7ois Boucher.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 9 (November 1983): 360\u201378.",
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"citation": "Saisselin, Re\u0301my G. The Enlightenment against the Baroque: Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.",
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