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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Young Man, not dated. France, 19th century. Oil on fabric; unframed: 47.8 x 38.6 cm (18 13/16 x 15 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.290",
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"title": "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900",
"description": "The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 12, 1980-January 18, 1981).",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
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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), 163, no. 135 (repr.). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg.",
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"description": "Private collector, Vienna, consigned to the Dorotheum",
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"description": "(Dorotheum, Vienna, sale, March 19-22, 1968, lot 129, unsold)",
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"The Dorotheum sale catalogue indicates that the painting was inscribed with a monogram that read \u201cC.T.\u201d; the monogram is again mentioned in the 1978 Sotheby\u2019s auction catalogue. However, the monogram is not visible in the reproduction of the painting in either catalogue, and no traces of it have been found on the painting\u2019s surface to date. Yet, it was due to these references to a monogram that the painting has been attributed to Constant Troyon, a painter known mainly for his landscapes, although he did paint studies of farmhands as well. It is possible that the supposed \u201cmonogram\u201d was not inscribed by the artist, but rather was a collector\u2019s mark or label on the back of the painting that has since been removed, and that the Dorotheum catalogue referred to it as a \u201cmonogram,\u201d erroneously attributing the painting to Troyon. Troyon did collect art himself (L.642), and so perhaps the \u201cC.T.\u201d does in fact refer to Troyon, but as a collector rather than an artist. Sales of Troyon\u2019s collection in 1872 and 1886, however, do not contain the Cleveland painting. There are several other \u201cC.T.\u201d collector\u2019s marks in Lugt, but they belong to unidentified collectors, and not knowing what the supposed monogram on this painting looked like makes it impossible to connect it to one of those in Lugt.
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"description": "Private collector, consigned to Sotheby\u2019s",
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"The May 12, 1978 Sotheby\u2019s catalogue notes that the paintings in the sale come from the collections of various owners. It is possible that the owner of the Cleveland painting, who is not identified in the catalogue, is the Viennese collector who in 1968 consigned it to the Dorothuem, where it failed to sale and presumably was returned to the consignor.
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"description": "(Sotheby\u2019s, New York, sale, May 12, 1978, lot 270, sold to an agent, possibly on behalf of Noah and Muriel Butkin)",
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"description": "Noah and Muriel Butkin, Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin",
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"date": "Probably 1978-1980",
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"citation": "Estate of Noah L. Butkin, Bequests to Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Murel S. Butkin. Estates, Gifts, and Funds, Series 1, Box 2:14. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"citation": "Sotheby\u2019s (New York). 19th-Century European Paintings. May 12, 1978.",
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Dorotheum (Vienna). \u00d6lgem\u00e4lde, Aquarelle, Miniaturen, Zeichnungen und alte Graphik. March 19-22, 1968.",
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Katja Fischer, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 25, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1980.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163\u2013219. Published as: attributed to Constant Troyon",
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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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