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"tombstone": "The Contemplator, 1901. Eug\u00e8ne Carri\u00e8re (French, 1849\u20131906). Oil on fabric; framed: 47.6 x 57.2 x 5.1 cm (18 3/4 x 22 1/2 x 2 in.); unframed: 33.6 x 41 cm (13 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Ralph King, gift of Mrs. Ralph King; Ralph T. Woods, Charles G. King; and Frances King Schafer, 1946.283",
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"title": "Eugene Carriere Retrospective",
"description": "Eugene Carriere Retrospective. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (November 2, 1968-January 26, 1969); Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (organizer) (November 2, 1968-January 26, 1969); Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (February 16-August 3, 1969); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (November 15, 1969-January 11, 1970); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (February 22-April 5, 1970).",
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"title": "Rodin/Carri\u00e8re, Interferences",
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"description": "On the occasion of the celebration of the centennial of Victor Hugo. Librairie des \u00c9ditions d'Art \u00c9douard Pelletan, Paris, France (1902).",
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"description": "Eug\u00e8ne Carri\u00e8re. \u00c9cole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Paris, France (1907).",
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"description": "This painting illustrating Victor Hugo's poem Boaz Sleeping is one of five images Carri\u00e8re created to commemorate the centennial of Hugo's birth. A reclining poet gazes at the stars above, as if in a dream, placing one hand over his heart and gesturing toward a crescent moon. The moon was thought to exert a special influence on poets and artists, inspiring not only creativity but darker thoughts of melancholy and suicide.",
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"citation": "Carrie\u0300re, Euge\u0300ne, and Gabriel Se\u0301ailles. Exposition de l'\u0153uvre de Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re au palais de l'e\u0301cole nationale des beaux-arts, quai malaquais, mai-juin 1907: catalogue des \u0153uvres expose\u0301es. Paris, France: Imprimerie Georges Petit, 1907.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 207",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Paintings.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXIV, no. 2 (February, 1947): 24.",
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"citation": "Carrie\u0300re, Jean-Rene\u0301. De la Vie d'Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re, souvenirs, lettres, pense\u0301es, documents. Toulouse, France: E. Privat, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 229",
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"citation": "Allentown Art Museum. Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re, 1849-1906, Seer of the Real. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA: 1968.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 21",
"url": null
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"citation": "Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen. Le Symbolisme en Europe: [exposition] : Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, novembre 1975-janvier 1976, Bruxelles, Muse\u0301es royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, janvier-mars 1976, Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, mars-mai 1976, Paris, Grand palais, mai-juillet 1976. Paris, France: E\u0301ditions des muse\u0301es nationaux, 1976.",
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"citation": "Roberts-Jones, Philippe. Beyond Time and Place: Non-Realist Painting in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 138",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201c\u2018Woman in the Waves\u2019 by Paul Gauguin.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 8 (October 1984): 280\u2013289.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 283-285, fig. 9",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159880"
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"citation": "Bantens, Robert James, and Robert Rosenblum. Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re: The Symbol of Creation. New York, NY: Kent Fine Art, 1990.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 110-112; Reproduced: p. 1112",
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"citation": "Rapetti, Rodolphe, Marie-Jeanne Geyer, and Marie-Pierre Sale\u0301. Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re, 1849-1906: Muse\u0301es de Strasbourg, Ancienne douane, 19 octobre 1996-9 fe\u0301vrier 1997. Paris, France: Editions de la Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 68",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Bajou-Charpentreau, Vale\u0301rie. Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re: portrait intimiste, 1849-1906. Lausanne, Switzerland: Acatos, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Detail, p. 154-155; Reproduced: p. 172-173",
"url": null
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"citation": "D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four: European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 40",
"url": null
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"citation": "Klimt, Andreas, and Michael Steppes. Allgemeines Ku\u0308nstlerlexikon: bio-bibliographischer Index A-Z = The artists of the world : bio-bibliographical index A-Z. Mu\u0308nchen, Germany: K.G. Saur, 1999.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 608",
"url": null
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"citation": "Klimt, Andreas, and Michael Steppes. Allgemeines Ku\u0308nstlerlexikon: bio-bibliographischer Index A-Z = The artists of the world : bio-bibliographical index A-Z. Mu\u0308nchen, Germany: K.G. Saur, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 16, 608",
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"citation": "Bellenger, Sylvain. \u201cAurora and Cephalus: A Story of an Acquisition.\u201d Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 8 (2003): 188\u2013199.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 198, fig. 13",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079739"
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"citation": "Wissman, Fronia E., and Carrie Haslett. European Muses, American Masters, 1870-1950. Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 852",
"url": null
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"citation": "Buley-Uribe, Christina. Auguste Rodin, Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re. Paris, France: Flammarion, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 41; Reproduced: p. 1119",
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"citation": "Nora-Milin, Ve\u0301ronique, Alice Lamarre,and Rodolphe Rapetti. Euge\u0300ne Carrie\u0300re, 1849-1906: catalogue raisonne\u0301 de l'\u0153uvre peint. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2008.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 321",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bergez, Daniel, and Kate Deimling. Painting the Dream: From the Biblical Dream to Surrealism. New York; London: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2018.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 128, no. 94",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bergez, Daniel. Peindre le re\u0302ve: des re\u0302ves bibliques au surre\u0301alisme. Paris : R\u00e9union des mus\u00e9es nationaux-Grand Palais, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: 99, 128; Mentioned: 128-130.",
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