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"title": "Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1977",
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"title": "The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries",
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"id": 182153,
"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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"description": "Paris, Palais des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. Salon (1883), no. 224, Portrait de Mme L . . . et de sa petite fille.",
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"description": "Paris, Galerie Georges Petit. Exposition Albert Besnard (1905), no. 119, as in coll. Henri Lerolle.",
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"description": "Paris, Palais de Bagatelle (organized by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nationale des Beaux-Arts). Exposition r\u00e9trospective de portraits de femmes sous les trois r\u00e9publiques (1909), no. 11, Portrait de Madame Henri Lerolle, Appartient \u00e0 M. Lerolle.",
"opening_date": "1909-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery; Art Institute of Chicago; London, Grosvenor Gallery.Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Albert Besnard (1913), no. 2, Portrait of Mme Henri Lerolle and Daughter (now Mme Eug\u00e8ne Rouart), lent by Henri Lerolle (also mentioned on p. 4 of Boston cat.).",
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"description": "London (Ontario) Regional Art Gallery. The Seven Ages of Man (1980), 18-19 (repr.).",
"opening_date": "1980-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Gifu (Japan), Museum of Fine Arts; Kamakura Museum of Modern Art. Paris autour de 1882 (1982-83), no. 11, pl. 11.",
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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": "Albert Besnard was a good friend of fellow artist Henri Lerolle, whose wife Madeleine and daughter Yvonne are the subjects of this double portrait set in a studio. The artist\u2019s profession is referenced in the large portfolios of drawings at lower right, and the easel at upper left, which displays a canvas tipped forward at an unusual angle. The canvas has been strapped to the easel in this position so the artist can more easily paint while seated.",
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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. 326-343, figs. 1, 14",
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 212",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n232"
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"citation": "Broun, Francis J. P. The Seven Ages of Man: Inaugural Exhibition, May 3-June 15, 1980. London, England: London Regional Art Gallery, 1980.",
"page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 18, 19, cover.",
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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. 24-27, Vol. I, no. 9",
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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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