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"tombstone": "Still Life with Herrings, c. 1735. Jean-Sim\u00e9on Chardin (French, 1699\u20131779). Oil on canvas; framed: 58.5 x 50.5 x 8.5 cm (23 1/16 x 19 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 41 x 33.6 cm (16 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1974.1",
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"1 David David-Weill was a prominent art collector in Paris. In 1937 he sold many objects to Wildenstein & Co., and then in 1940, he fled Paris. At this time, much of his collection was seized by the Nazis, and many of these items were returned to him after the war. This painting, however, appears to have remained in David-Weill\u2019s collection throughout the war and until 1952; it appears in no databases of looted objects or in NARA\u2019s archival records.
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"1 The buyer listed in the catalogue is \"Newhoune\" [sic].
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"description": "Chardin reflected intensely on the act of observation. Still life became a forum for sophisticated performances in paint, and his complex technique\u2014he famously worked in private\u2014uses a staggering combination of delicate glazes and roughly dragged thick paint to capture the varied surfaces, atmospheres, and spaces in this humble pantry shelf. Acutely aware of recent developments in optics and physics, Chardin explored ideas about light, shadow, and color, and fully expected his work to be inspected closely.",
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"citation": "Comite\u0301 Chardin et Fragonard (Paris), and Galerie Georges Petit (Paris). Exposition Chardin et Fragonard: Galeries Georges Petit, Paris ; juin-juillet 1907. 1907.",
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"citation": "Guiffrey, Jean \"Exposition Chardin-Fragonard,\" Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, XXII, (1907).",
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"citation": "Maurice Tourneux, \"L'Exposition Chardin-Fragonard,\" Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXXVIII (1907).",
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"citation": "Otto Grautoff, \"Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin,\" Kunst und K\u00fcnstler, VI (1908).",
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"citation": "Guiffrey, Jean. Catalogue raisonne\u0301 de l'\u0153uvre peint et dessine\u0301 de J.-B. Sime\u0301on Chardin: suivi de la liste des gravures exe\u0301cute\u0301es d'apre\u0300s ses ouvraves. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1908.",
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"citation": "Furst, Herbert. Chardin. London: Methuen & Co, 1911.",
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"citation": "Henriot, Gabriel. Collection David-Weill. Paris : Braun & Cie, 1926.",
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"citation": "Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, e\u0301dition d'e\u0301tudes et de documents, 1933.",
"page_number": "no. 896, fig. 125, and no. 898",
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"citation": "Arnold Seligmann-Helft Galleries. French Still Life from Chardin to Cezanne. Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Quaker Emergency Service. 1947.",
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"citation": "Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. [Zu\u0308rich]: Manesse, 1963.",
"page_number": "), no. 272., fig. 127, and no. 56, fig. 27",
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"citation": "Wildenstein, Georges, and Daniel Wildenstein. Chardin. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1969.",
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"citation": "Christie, Manson & Woods. Highly Important Pictures by Old Masters. 1973.",
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"citation": "Davis, Frank. \"Talking about Salerooms: 'King of Pots and Pans'\" Country Life (August 16, 1973).",
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"citation": "Clark, Carol C. \u201cJean-Baptiste Sim\u00e9on Chardin: Still Life with Herring.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 9 (1974).",
"page_number": "p. 285, figs. 3 and 4",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1974.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (1975).",
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"citation": "Rosenberg, Pierre, Jean Baptiste Sime\u0301on Chardin, and Sally W. Goodfellow. Chardin, 1699-1779: A Special Exhibition Organized by the Re\u0301union Des Muse\u0301es Nationaux, Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.",
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"citation": "Johnson, Mark M. Chardin, 1699-1799: notes on the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. Cleveland: [s.n.], 1979.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
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"citation": "Borowitz, Helen O. \u201cThe Watteau and Chardin of Marcel Proust.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 1 (1982).",
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"citation": "Chardin, Jean Baptiste Sime\u0301on, and Pierre Rosenberg. Chardin: il pittore del silenzio. Ferrara: Ferrara arte, 2010.",
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"citation": "Bourg, Alexis Merle Du. \"Il Maestro Delle Nature \"Inanimate.\"\" Chardin suppl. no. 272 (Dec. 2010).",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
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