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"title": "Still Life with Dead Birds and a Basket of Oysters",
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"title": "Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art",
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"title": "Th\u00e9odule Ribot (1823-1891): A Delightful Darkness",
"description": "Th\u00e9odule Ribot (1823-1891): A Delightful Darkness. Mus\u00e9e des Augustins, Toulouse, France (October 16, 2021-January 2, 2022) https://www.augustins.org/en/exhibition-theodule-ribot; Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, Marseille, France (February 10-May 15, 2022); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France (organizer) (June 11-October 2, 2022) https://mba.caen.fr/exposition/theodule-ribot.",
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"description": "CMA. Chardin and the Still-Life Tradition in France (1979), 56, 86, 90, no. 24 (repr. in color).",
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"description": "CMA; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-82), 240, no. 211 (repr.). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg.",
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"description": "Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN (8/26/2012 - 11/15/2012): \"Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art\", ex. cat, no. 62, p. 182-183.",
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"description": "K. Wyndham. Sale, London, Christie's, 1 April 1977 (lot 105, repr.), Hu\u00eetres et perdrix, for \u00a31,700 to Shepherd Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980",
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"description": "Against a dark brown background, Ribot painted a basket filled with oysters. Light coming from the left is gently cast over the wicker basket. A dead magpie, with its white chest and long black beak, emerges from the shadows at the left. This bird, along with the partridge in the foreground, the jay toward the back, and what appears to be a sparrow at the right, are probably located in a kitchen, where preparations for cooking will soon begin. Germain Ribot, who painted genre (everyday life) scenes and still lifes, was the son of the more famous Th\u00e9odule-Augustin Ribot (1823-1891), known for his working-class and peasant subjects.",
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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. 540-541, Vol. II, no. 188",
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"citation": "Delapierre, Emmanuelle. \"Dans la Cuisine de Ribot: le Realisme de l'Objet.\" In The\u0301odule Ribot, 1823-1891: Une De\u0301licieuse Obscurite\u0301. Emmanuelle Delapierre, Luc Georget, Gabriel Weisberg, eds., 58-117. Paris: LienArt, 2021.",
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