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"title": "Visions of Landscape: East and West",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1975.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31\u201371.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 43; Mentioned: p. 67, no. 57",
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"citation": "Talbot, William S. \u201cSome French Landscapes: 1779-1842.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 3 (March 1978): 75\u201391.",
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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.",
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