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        "title": "Laban Searching for His Stolen Household Gods",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
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                "date": "by 1931",
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                    "<div><!--block-->1 Several copies of the 1924 Christie's sale catalogue have handwritten notations indicating \"Hibbard\" that Hibbard was the buyer of this painting.&nbsp; Hibbard's first name has not been identified, but a collector by the name of \"Hibbard\" does appear in several other auction catalogues, as well as in the provenances of several paintings currently in museum collections.</div>"
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                "description": "(Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, sale, July 4, 1924, no. 21, sold to Hibbard)",
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                "description": "Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, second Duke of Westminster [1879 \u20131953]",
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                "description": "Hugh Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster [1825-1899], Grosvenor House, London, to his grandson, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor",
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                    "<div><!--block-->1The painting appears in \"A Catalogue of Pictures at Grosvenor House,\" published in 1921; therefore, it must have been in the Grosvenor family at least by that point, if not yet in the possession of Hugh Grosvenor.&nbsp; Hugh's father, Richard, was born in 1795, and thus would not have purchased the painting from Buchanan c. 1809, but Hugh's grandfather, Robert [1767-1845] may have been the purchaser.</div><div><!--block--><br></div><ul><li><!--block--><br></li></ul>"
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                    "<div><!--block-->1 There is no documentation confirming that Robert Grosvenor owned this painting.&nbsp; However, it was in the collection of Grosvenor House by 1821, and neither Hugh Grosvenor nor his father, Richard, could have purchased the painting from William Buchanan c. 1809.</div>"
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            {
                "description": "(William Buchanan and W.G. Coesvelt, London, acquired in Spain through Buchanan\u2019s agent, G. Augustus Wallis), sold to the Marquis of Westminster)1",
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                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1 The Marquis of Westminster purchased the painting in exchange for two Lorrains, a Poussin, and 1200 livres.</div><div><!--block--><br></div>"
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                "date": "c. 1808-1809",
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                    "<div><!--block-->1 Probably Ventura Osorio de Moscoso y Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdoba, VIII Marqu\u00e9s de Villamanrique, who died in 1776.</div>"
                ],
                "date": "by 1775-1808",
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                "description": "Marquis of Villamanrique, Seville",
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                    "<div><!--block-->The Marquis of Villamanrique, probably Manuel Luis de Guzm\u00e1n y Manrique de Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, IV Marqu\u00e9s de Villamanrique (d. 1692) commissioned this painting from Murillo.&nbsp; The painting then passed down through the family, likely following this line of descent: Melchor de Guzm\u00e1n Osorio Davila Manrique de Zu\u00f1iga, V Marqu\u00e9s de Villamanrique (d. 1710); Ana Nicolasa de Guzm\u00e1n Osorio D\u00e1vila y Manrique de Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, VI Marquesa de Villamanrique (d. 1762); Ventura Antonio Osorio de Moscoso y Guzm\u00e1n D\u00e1vila y Arag\u00f3n, VII Marqu\u00e9s de Villamanrique, (d. 1746); Ventura Osorio de Moscoso y Fern\u00e1ndez de C\u00f3rdoba, VIII Marqu\u00e9s de Villamanrique (d. 1776).&nbsp;</div>"
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        "description": "This story comes from the Old Testament book of Genesis and stresses the value of reconciliation. Jacob lived with his uncle Laban for years, marrying Laban\u2019s daughters Rachel and Leah. When the relationship between the men soured, Jacob and his family departed, while Rachel secretly stole her father\u2019s household gods. When Laban discovered that the statues were missing, he pursued Jacob, accusing him of theft. Here, Jacob invites Laban to search his tent, while Rachel sits on the saddlebag containing the statues. After coming up empty-handed, Laban proposes a truce, ending the squabble.",
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                "citation": "Valdivieso, Enrique.  <em>Murillo: cata\u0301logo razonado de pinturas</em>. Madrid: Ediciones El Viso, 2010.",
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                "citation": "Angulo In\u0303iguez, Diego. <em>Murillo</em>. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981.",
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                "citation": "Angulo In\u0303iguez, Diego. <em>Murillo</em>. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1981.",
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                "citation": "Young, John, and Robert Grosvenor Westminster. <em>A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, London: With Etchings from the Whole Collection. Executed by Permission of the Noble Proprietor and Accompanied by Historical Notices of the Principal Works</em>. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Cleveland-Row, St. James's. Published by the Proprietor, No. 65, Upper Charlotte-Street, Fitzroy-Square, 1821. <ul><li><br></li></ul>",
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                "citation": "Buchanan, William. <em>Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England Since the French Revolution</em>. London: Printed for R. Ackerman, 1824. <ul><li><br></li></ul>",
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                "citation": "Curtis, Charles Boyd. <em>Velazquez and Murillo; A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works of Don Diego De Silva Velazquez and Bartolome\u0301 Este\u0301ban Murillo</em>. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. <ul><li><br></li></ul>",
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                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 131",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n155"
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Frank Chalton Francis. Fiftieth Anniversary Banquet: The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, June 13, 1966. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1966.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10-11",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/50thAnniversary/page/n19"
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                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 367-370, figs. 1-3",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152127"
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                "citation": "Richards, Louise S. \u201cBartolom\u00e9 Esteban Murillo: A Drawing Study for a Virgin and Child.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 7 (September 1968): 235\u2013238.",
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