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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"PM Di\u00e9terle\"",
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"title": "Year in Review for 1984",
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"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
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"title": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"title": "France at the Dawn of Photography",
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"description": "CMA 1985: \"Year in Review 1984,\" Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 202, no. 65, repr. p. 184.",
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"description": "In the early 1850s, Robert made a series of photographs that would be copied in lithography by Emile van Marcke, an accomplished artist who worked at the S\u00e8vres factory with Robert at this time. Robert\u2019s photographic journey captured seven sites\u2014all featuring medieval architecture\u2014in a small section along the northern coast of Brittany. For this picturesque view, he included the entire building, a small 15th-century Gothic pavilion erected over the fountain of Notre-Dame of Saint-Brieuc and whose square fa\u00e7ade was positioned on a slight diagonal. Robert provided a sense of place by including a portion of the 19th-century chapel behind it, as well as flanking trees and a path leading out of the composition. For this reason, he may have also added a seated woman, dressed in traditional Breton costume, under the frontal arch. Due to the required length of exposure, the movement of the trees was recorded which, along with broad areas of bright light and dark shadows, provides a strong sense of atmosphere.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1984.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163\u2013207.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"biography": "Louis-R\u00e9my Robert French, 1811-1882\r\n\r\nBorn in Paris, Louis-R\u00e9my Robert was trained by his father as a painter on porcelain and glass, eventually succeeding him as chief in charge of the workshops of painters and gilders at the Manufacture de S\u00e8vres. He developed an active interest in photography, probably due in part to his friendship with Henri-Victor Regnault, who was appointed director at S\u00e8vres in 1852, and whom Robert succeeded in 1871.\r\n\tRobert's views are frequently more traditional and classically inclined than those of Regnault. His well-known series on the architecture, gardens, and art of Versailles, published by Louis-D\u00e9sire Blanquart-\u00c9vrard as Souvenirs de Versailles (1853), reflects an appreciation of the heritage in French culture and design, traditions with which Robert was familiar, on a smaller scale, through his background in porcelain and glass decoration.\r\n\tRobert was also a technical innovator, a friend of the printers Blanquart-\u00c9vrard and Alphonse Louis Poitevin, and served as a judge for the competition originated by the Duc de Luynes to further research into the longevity of photographic prints. A member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de photographie, Robert exhibited his work in Paris, Brussels, and London between 1855-62 and lectured on photography at the \u00c9cole des Ponts et Chaus\u00e9es from 1858-72. T.W.F.",
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