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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
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"title": "Henri Fantin-Latour: Painter of Intimacy (1836-1904)",
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"description": "Paris, Grand Palais; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Fantin-Latour (1982-83), 322, 324, 327, 367-69, no. 137 bis (repr.) (shown only in Ottawa and San Francisco).",
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"description": "CMA (organizer). Beijing World Art Museum, China, May 26 - Aug. 27, 2006; Mori Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan: Sept. 9 - Nov. 26, 2006; Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea: Dec. 18, 2006 - March 31, 2007; Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea: Apr. 7 - May 20, 2007; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: June 9 - Sept. 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, Feb. 21-June 1, 2008; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, June 22 - September 21, 2008; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, October 12, 2008 - January 18, 2009: \"Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"",
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"description": "Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (6/18/2009 - 9/6/2009) and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (9/28/2009 - 1/10/2010): \"Henri Fantin-Latour: Painter of Intimacy (1836-1904)\"",
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"description": "The floral still life of roses enlivens the otherwise restrained palette used by the artist in this portrait. By the time he painted Madeleine Escudier Lerolle (1856\u20131937), wife of artist Henry Lerolle, the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour had established a steady clientele in Britain for his floral still lifes, arranged in modest vases and depicted against a neutral ground; he included such a still life in this portrait. Madeleine Lerolle and her daughter Yvonne are the subjects of another painting at the CMA by Albert Besnard in gallery 219.",
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"citation": "Be\u0301ne\u0301dite, Le\u0301once. Fantin-Latour; e\u0301tude critique, catalogue des oeuvres conserve\u0301es dans les muse\u0301es, liste des oeuvres expose\u0301es aux salons - Fantin-Latour lithographe, catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographie\u0301 et grave\u0301. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1903.",
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"citation": "Be\u0301ne\u0301dite, Le\u0301once. . L'\u0153uvre de Fantin-Latour; recueil de cinquante reproductions d'apre\u0300s les principaux chefs-d'\u0153uvre du mai\u0302tre re\u0301unis a\u0300 l'occasion de l'exposition organise\u0301e a\u0300 l'E\u0301cole nationale des beaux-arts, sous le patronage de m. le ministre de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts et de m. le sous-secre\u0301taire d'e\u0301tat des beaux-arts. Paris: Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, 1906.",
"page_number": "Plate 19",
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"citation": "Jullien, Adolphe. Fantin-Latour, Sa Vie et Ses Amitie\u0301s; Lettres Ine\u0301dites et Souvenirs Personnels, avec Cinquante-Trois Reproductions d'\u0153uvres du Maitre, Tire\u0301es a Part, Six Autographes et Vingt-Deux Illustrations dans le Texte. Paris: L. Laveur, 1909.",
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"citation": "Talbot, William S. \u201cHenri Fantin-Latour: Madame Henri Lerolle.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 9 (November 1969): 308\u2013319.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 308-313, figs. 1-3",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152293"
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"citation": "Weisberg, Gabriel P. \u201cMadame Henry Lerolle and Daughter Yvonne.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 10 (December 1977): 326\u2013343.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 328-330, fig. 8",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159555"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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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. 264-267, Vol. I, no. 96",
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"citation": "Alsdorf, Bridget. \"Manet's Fleurs du Mal.\" In Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years. Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Lynn, eds., 128-145. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 138-139",
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"citation": "Lerolle, Aggy. Henry Lerolle: Paris 1848-1929. Willaupuis, Belgium: Wapica; Paris: Socie\u0301te\u0301 des Amis d'Henry Lerolle, 2022.",
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