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"title": "Year in Review: 1965",
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"title": "French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches: David to Degas",
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"title": "Triumph und Tod des Helden (Triumph and Death of the Hero): European History Painting from Rubens to Manet",
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"description": "French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).",
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"title": "Girodet: Romantic Rebel",
"description": "Girodet: Romantic Rebel. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 11-April 30, 2006); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-August 27, 2006); Montr\u00e9al Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (October 12, 2006-January 21, 2007).",
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"title": "Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession",
"description": "Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024).",
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"description": "cma; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-82), 72-73 (repr.). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg.",
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"description": "Kunsthalle Hamburg. Goya: Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen 1789-1830 (1981), 534, no. 393, pl. xx.",
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"description": "Providence, Bell Gallery, Brown University. All the Banners Wave: Art and War in the Romantic Era 1792-1851 (1982), no. 11b (repr.).",
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"description": "Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (N.Y.); Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase. Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting, 1800-1880 (1982), no. 45, fig. 14.",
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"description": "Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich; Lyons, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts. Triumph und Tod des Helden: Europ\u00e4ische Historienmalerei von Rubens bis Manet (1987-88), no. 134 (repr.).",
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"description": "Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2/11/2006 - 4/30/2006), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (5/22/2006 - 8/27/2006) and the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts, Montr\u00e9al (10/12/2006 - 1/21/2007): \"Girodet: Romantic Rebel\" (Paris: Mus\u00e9e du Louvre \u00cadition \u00a92005), ex. cat. 56, p. 317.",
"opening_date": "2006-02-11T00:00:00"
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"description": "Paris sale, Drouot, collection Coutan-Hauguet, 16-17 December 1889 (lot 16), \"G\u00e9ricault [annotation gives: Girodet]: R\u00e9volte du Caire, 21 Octobre 1798, premi\u00e8re pens\u00e9e: esquisse,\" 15 x 24 cm, for ff 309 to Guillon [annotated]. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Given to the CMA in 1965.",
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"description": "Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, prints, paintings, and photographs, like Louis Haghe\u2019s Egypt and Nubia series, brought back by artists who voyaged to Egypt, inspired American and European artists, architects, and designers to emulate ancient Egyptian motifs and styles. Egyptomania blossomed through the 1800s and can be seen in architecture around cities like Washington, DC, and in the interiors of aristocratic homes, as well as in funerary monuments, such as in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Looking back at these creations provides an interesting historical groundwork for debating who has the right to interpret Egyptian motifs and styles.",
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 298-300, Vol. I, no. 107",
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"citation": "Lisby, Darnell-Jamal. \u201cEgyptomania: Engaging the conflicted obsession.\" Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 12-15.",
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