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"title": "Declaration of Love",
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"title": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries",
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"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956 \"The Venetian Tradition,\" cat. no. 21, p. 25.",
"opening_date": "1956-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 14, 1959: \"Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effect,\" cat. no. 18, illus. p. 47. reproduced on Frontispiece of the Baltimore Museum of Art News.",
"opening_date": "1959-04-25T00:00:00"
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"description": "Hanover, NH; Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio); Houston, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. \"Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-century France\" (10/4/97 - 8/18/98), p. 94-96, cat. no. 4, color repr. p. 95.",
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"description": "William Sharp Ogden (1845-1926), Finchley, London",
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"description": "A category of painting invented in France in the early 1700s is the f\u00eate galante (gallant party), with subject matter that hovers between fantasy and reality. The figures in theatrical costume derive from Italian street performers seen in Paris, while the playful outdoor garden party connects to leisure activities enjoyed by certain Parisian elites. The arts of conversation, music, and painting\u2014all highly valued by French aristocracy\u2014intersect in this work.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. [6], cat. no. 8; Mentioned: p. 25, cat. no. 8",
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"citation": "\"Recent Important Acquisitions of American Collections\", Art Quarterly, VII, no. 3 (1944).",
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"citation": " Art News, XLIII (October 1, 1944).",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"citation": "Saisselin, Remy G. \"The Rococo as a Dream of Happiness,\" Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, XIX (Winter 1960).",
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