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"title": "The Empress Eug\u00e9nie Receiving the Diplomatic Corps after the Birth of the Imperial Prince",
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"inscription": "VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 34 ; ON SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (now removed), printed in black ink: From / C.W. KRAUSHAAR / ART GALLERIES / 730 FIFTH AVENUE / HECKSCHER BUILDING / NEW YORK / ESTABLISHED 1885 / [the rest typewritten in black ink] \"The Empress (Eugenie) receiving the Corps Diplo- / matique, after the birth of the Prince Imperial\" / Water color drawing by / CONSTANTIN GUYS / Collection of Sir William Ingres",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1972",
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"title": "The Vocabulary of Prints",
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"title": "French Drawings from the Collection",
"description": "French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).",
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"description": "CMA, Urban Vicissitudes (June 25-Sep. 29, 1985) [?: in the show or not?: there is label copy for the drawing among that for the show, but the drawing does not appear on the checklist--?].",
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"description": "CMA, \"Gallery J--Drawings\" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called \"The Vocabulary of Prints\"--see exhs. file).",
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"description": "New York, Shepherd Gallery, Ingres and Delacroix through Degas and Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art 1800-1870 (May-June 1975), no. 46, illus.",
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"description": "Sir William Ingram (not stamped not in Lugt) (according to an old label from Kraushaar Art Galleries); [C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York] (according to an old label, now removed and in departmental file)",
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