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"description": "Coorte worked in Middelburg, a wealthy maritime city in the southern part of the Netherlands that fostered a poetic, scientific, and spiritual examination of the natural world. Gooseberries\u2014a modest, local pleasure\u2014could be picked in the wild, although Dutch gardeners in the 1600s were the first to cultivate them to improve their taste. The strong illumination gives the plant a stark grandeur, despite the small scale, and the dark background emphasizes the fruit's delicate translucency. The dessicated flower petals and waxy leaves contrast with the succulent gooseberries, with their skin on the verge of bursting.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1987.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30\u201371.",
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"citation": "Smith, Jeanette M. \u201cGooseberries on a Table.\u201d JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 310, no. 10 (September 11, 2013): 1008-1009.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
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