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"description": "Fran\u00e7ois Boucher\u2019s design for a fountain presents an elaborate artistic fantasy with details drawn from mythology and the natural world. Two sea creatures, half-human and half-fish hybrids known as tritons, sit in a shell basin playing a pair of conchs. In the print, Gabriel Huquier transformed Boucher\u2019s rocky grotto into a shell niche featuring the head of the sea god, also called Triton. These designs, though fanciful, reflect a wider Enlightenment interest in the collection and study of shells. In fact, French naturalist Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d\u2019Argenville even opened his scientific treatise on shells, La Conchyliologie, with a related print by Boucher.",
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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\u2013378.",
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