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"tombstone": "The Departure of Jacob, c. 1755. Fran\u00e7ois Boucher (French, 1703\u20131770). Pen and brown-black ink, brown ink wash, and red chalk wash, with black chalk on cream laid paper; sheet: 34.8 x 23.1 cm (13 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds, 1981.58",
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"title": "The Departure of Jacob",
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"technique": "Pen and brown-black ink, brown ink wash, and red chalk wash, with black chalk on cream laid paper",
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"inscription": "ON THREE SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECES OF PAPER (now removed and in departmental file), inscribed in black ink: T[illegible] / Dessin \u00e0 la[illegible] / Boucher - [illegible] / chez Paulme [illegible] 19[illegible] / [illegible] ; printed in black ink: THOS [S superscript] AGNEW & SONS LTD [TD superscript] / N\u00ba 44133 / LONDON, / 43 OLD BOND STREET / PICCADILLY, W1X 4BA ; printed in black ink: Place de la Borde, N\u00ba 2, pr\u00e8s St [t superscript]-Augustin / ALEXANDRE / JOUANEST / DOREUR / Fabricant de bordures dor\u00e9es / pour tableaux, estampes, / glaces, gouaches et des- / sins, et se charge de / l'encadrement. / A PARIS.",
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"title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings",
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"description": "(possibly sold, Drouot, Paris, May 3-5, 1858, no. 48, no. 630)",
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"footnotes": [
"As \"Le P\u00e2tre, sa Famille et son Troupeau au repos, beau dessin \u00e0 l'encre de Chine lav\u00e9 au bistre.\"
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"description": "(Marius Paulme [1863-1928; Lugt 1910], Paris)",
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"According to Agnew's; label from an old backing in CMA files confirms Paulme provenance.
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"description": "Mme D., Paris",
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"According to Ananoff/Wildenstein 1976.
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"description": "(Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
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"Inventory no. 44133 on label.
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"did_you_know": "The gesture between the couple in this drawing -- in which the man offers the woman a pear -- is seen in several other works by Fran\u00e7ois Boucher.",
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"description": "Fran\u00e7ois Boucher was known for romantic, idealized pastoral scenes and produced relatively few religious works. This drawing, however, is believed to relate to the Old Testament story in which Jacob travels to Canaan with his family. Boucher used a limited palette of brown, red, and black to create dramatic shadows and highlights. The family is seen basking in the dappled sunlight that illuminates the mother and her baby as they rest beneath a palm tree. The sheet may have served as a preparatory study for a similar painting by Boucher that is lost today and known only through a reproductive engraving by the printmaker Elisabeth Cousinet-Lempereur.",
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"citation": "Ananoff, Alexandre. Fran\u00e7ois Boucher. Lausanne: La Biblioth\u00e8que des Arts, 1976.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, pp. 171-172, under no. 34",
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"citation": "Master Drawings. London: Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., 1977.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 32",
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"citation": "\"The Year in Review for 1981.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (February 1982): 41-80.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 41, 80; Reproduced: p. 49",
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"citation": "Goldfarb, Hilliard T. \"Boucher's Pastoral Scene with Family at Rest and the Image of the Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century France.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (March 1984): 82-89.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduce: pp. 82-89",
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"citation": "Laing, Alastair. \"Boucher et la pastorale peinte.\" Revue de l'art 73 (1986): 55-64.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 61 n. 3",
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"citation": "Dessins fran\u00e7ais des XVIIIe et XIXe si\u00e8cles du Mus\u00e9e de Picardie. Exh. Cat. Amiens: Mus\u00e9e de Picardie, 1997.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 50, under no. 1",
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10, pp. 102-103, 288, no. 37; Reproduced: p. 103",
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