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"tombstone": "The Bath, c. 1900. F\u00e9lix Bracquemond (French, 1833\u20131914). Brush and black and brown wash with pen and black ink, black chalk, and charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on brown wove paper laid on yellow-beige wove paper; sheet: 59 x 44 cm (23 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.240",
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"inscription": "inscribed, lower right, in brown ink: Bracquemond; inscribed, at bottom, in black chalk: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; at lower right, in black ink: mark of Alfred Beurdeley [Lugt 421]",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
"description": "Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).",
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"title": "Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).",
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"description": "\u0152uvres de Bracquemond (Salon de 1907). Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale des beaux-arts, Paris (1907).",
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"description": "Exposition de gravures ex\u00e9cut\u00e9es par M. F\u00e9lix Bracquemond et Sir F. Seymour Haden. H\u00f4tel des modes, Paris (February 1909).",
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"description": "(his ninth sale, November 30 and December 2, 1920, no. 50, sold to Boutet)",
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"description": "Noah Butkin [1918-1980], Shaker Heights, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"did_you_know": "Bracquemond drew extensively and promoted the medium as the source of all artistic practice.",
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"description": "This drawing relates to F\u00e9lix Bracquemond\u2019s interest in integrating various artistic techniques, a practice that became increasingly common around 1900. With a range of black and white media, the artist depicted a nude in a forest pool. Faint gridding was used to transfer the image either to or from a similar enamel and a print. An important part of this working process, the drawing was included in both of the major exhibitions of Bracquemond\u2019s oeuvre during his life. From one of these displays, in 1907, Bracquemond sold it to Parisian collector Alfred Beurdeley, who acquired hundreds of drawings with the aim of representing the art of his time.",
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"citation": "\u0152uvres de Bracquemond. Exh. cat. Paris: Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale des beaux-arts, 1907.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3, no. 33",
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"citation": "Catalogue de l\u2019exposition de gravures, exe\u0301cute\u0301es par M. Fe\u0301lix Bracquemond et Sir F. Seymour Haden. Paris: H\u00f4tel des Modes, 1909.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 16, no. 274",
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"citation": "Catalogue des dessins, pastels, aquarelles modernes [. . .] composant la collection de M. A. Beurdeley (premi\u00e8re vente). Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1920.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 13, no. 50",
"url": "https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/48875"
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"citation": "Bouillon, Jean-Paul. \"An Artistic Collaboration: Bracquemond and Baron Vitta.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 8 (Nov. 1979): 311-19.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 319n17; Reproduced: p. 315, fig. 7",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1980.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163-219.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 182, 215; Reproduced: p. 181",
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},
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"citation": "Bouillon, Jean-Paul. F\u00e9lix Bracquemond et les arts d\u00e9coratifs, du japonisme \u00e0 l\u2019Art nouveau. Exh. cat. Limoges: Mus\u00e9e National Adrien-Dubouch\u00e9, 2005.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 199",
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"citation": "Salsbury, Britany. Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
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