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"tombstone": "Untitled, c. 1900\u20131906. Robert Demachy (French, 1859\u20131936). Gum bichromate print; image: 21.6 x 17.8 cm (8 1/2 x 7 in.); paper: 23.6 x 18.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann, 1985.203",
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"inscription": "Written in blue pencil on verso: \"Coating too thick / not enough bichromate / to [sic] much development in / the high lights [sic] D\"; in pencil on verso: \"couche trop \u00e9pouse\"; \"78\"",
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"id": 311875,
"title": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1996-11-24T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 705705,
"title": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot",
"description": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).",
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"description": "Ville de Chalon-Sur-Saone, Musee Nicephore Niepce, Feb. 11 - March 14, 1977: \"Robert Demachy,\" exhibition catalogue no. 423.",
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"description": "CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: \"Year in Review 1985,\" CMA Bulletin, 73 (February 1986), p. 66, no. 96, repr. p. 54.",
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"description": "CMA, July 21 - October 18, 1987: \"Fraternite: Artistic Relations between France and America,\" Gallery A, no exhibition catalogue.",
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"description": "CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: \"Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art.\"",
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"did_you_know": "This photograph captures the sense of interior reflection sometimes found in portraits of their friends and family painted by the Impressionists.",
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"description": "It is not surprising that the photograph recalls paintings. Robert Demachy, who had started experimenting with photography in the 1870s, was part of the Pictorialist movement, artists from Europe and the United States who argued that photography was a fine art medium. They often found stylistic and narrative inspiration for their photographs in paintings, drawings, and prints.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1985.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26\u201371.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned: p. 66, no. 96",
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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": "Robert Demachy French, 1859-1936\r\n\r\nBorn in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Robert Demachy was a banker of independent means whose rarefied and varied interests ranged from racing cars to music, literature, and art. His American wife, Julia Adelia Delano, was related to Franklin Roosevelt. In the field of photography, Demachy was both practitioner and theoretician, writing five books and more than 1,000 articles on aesthetic and technical issues. He was a leader in the manipulative style in which the negative was used as the basis for producing prints that approached aquatint and other intaglio media in their overtly artistic, handworked qualities. He was especially known for his work with the gum bichromate and oil printing processes, the latter of which he pioneered and developed with Alfred Maskell. He later abandoned photography for sketching and drawing.\r\n\tDemachy's photographs often have the quality of paintings, drawings, or intaglio prints and are frequently printed in color. His varied subject matter is often treated in an idealized manner, characteristic of the pictorialism prevalent during the time he worked (roughly 1880-1914). Demachy was a member of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de photographie, the Linked Ring, and the Photo-Secession. In 1894 he helped to found the Photo Club de Paris. He was also a member of honor of the Royal Photographic Society and a chevalier of the L\u00e9gion d'honneur. T.W.F.",
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