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"tombstone": "Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog, 1889. Edgar Degas (French, 1834\u20131917). Pastel; sheet: 49.8 x 32.1 cm (19 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.); secondary support: 50.6 x 38 cm (19 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund, 1988.93",
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"title": "Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog",
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"title": "The Year in Review for 1988",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).",
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"title": "Object in Focus: Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog by Edgar Degas",
"description": "Object in Focus: Ludovic Lepic Holding His Dog by Edgar Degas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-April 20, 1998).",
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"id": 192019,
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
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"title": "Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).",
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"description": "Degas, portraitiste, sculpteur. Mus\u00e9e de l'Orangerie, Paris (July 19 - October 1, 1931).",
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"description": "Estate of Edgar Degas [1834-1917], Paris",
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"description": "(Galerie Georges Petit, second Degas sale, Paris, December 12-13, 1918, no. 87, probably sold to Georges Viau)",
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"description": "Peter A. Putnam, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"did_you_know": "Scholars have suggested that the unusual tonality of this drawing is due to the fact that it was executed in artificial rather than natural light.",
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"description": "Degas executed this portrait of his friend, the artist Ludovic Lepic, with rapid and expressive strokes of powdery pastel. The two artists worked together closely in printmaking early on, and this work is one of several commemorative depictions that Degas made throughout his career. Here, Lepic is seen with his pet, a Belgian Griffon, suggesting a fondness for dogs for which he was well-known in late-19th century Paris. He died just about one month after this portrait was completed at the age of 50.",
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"citation": "Catalogue des tableaux, pastels, et dessins par Edgar Degas...2e vente. Paris: Georges Petit, 1918.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 49, no. 87",
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"citation": "Degas, portratiste, sculpteur. Exh. Cat. Paris: Mus\u00e9e de l'Orangerie, 1931.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 99, no. 135",
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"citation": "Catalogue des dessins, aquarelles, gouaches, pastels...composant la collection de M. Georges Viau. Paris: Drouot, 1942.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 25, no. 65; Reproduced: pl. III",
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"citation": "Lemoisne, Paul Andre. Degas et son oeuvre. Paris: Brame et de Hauke, 1946.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: vol. III, no. 950",
"url": null
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"citation": "Boggs, Jean Sutherland. Portraits by Degas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 69, no. 135; Reproduced: no. 135",
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"citation": "Russoli, Franco. L'opera completa di Degas. Milan: Rizzoli, 1970.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116, no. 666",
"url": null
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"citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1988.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30\u201375.
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"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46; Mentioned: p. 69, no. 34",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
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"citation": "\"Recent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art I: Departments of Western Art.\" Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1054 (January 1991): 63-68.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 66, no. XIV",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/884642"
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"citation": "Buchanan, Harvey. 1991. Edgar Degas and Ludovic Lepic : An Impressionist Friendship. Cleveland, Ohio: Harvey Buchanan.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1-150",
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"citation": "Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 70; Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 6",
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"citation": "Buchanan, Harvey. \"Edgar Degas and Ludovic Lepic: An Impressionist Friendship.\" Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 2 (1997): 32-121.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: 32-121; Reproduced: p. 33",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079691"
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"citation": "Prenant, St\u00e9phanie. \"Restauration ou revolution?: Emile Levy (1826-1890) et le pastel fran\u00e7ais dans les annees 1880.\" MA thesis, Paris 1, Panth\u00e9on Sorbonne, 2015.",
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"biography": "Son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas enrolled in law school in 1853 following his father's wishes. But he had already shown an interest in art and had also registered to copy at the Louvre. In 1855 he entered the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and became a student of Louis Lamothe (1822-1869), a former pupil of Ingres (q.v.). One year later Degas made the traditional journey to Italy, remaining there for three years. He visited family members in Naples and Florence and attended life classes at the Villa Medici in Rome. A visit to Normandy in 1861 may have introduced him to the racetrack. In Paris he continued to study at the Louvre, where he met Manet (q.v.) in 1862. Apart from his continuous interest in portraiture and history painting, Degas began to pay attention to subjects of modern life. Between 1865 and 1870, he exhibited at the Salon. At the time of the Franco-Prussian War, he enlisted in the artillery, but because of his poor eyesight he served (with Manet) in the infantry. After the war he traveled first to London and, in 1872-73, visited his uncle and brothers who had a cotton business in New Orleans. Degas participated in the first impressionist exhibition of 1874. He continued to exhibit with these artists until 1886 but never completely considered himself a member of the group, preferring to call himself a realist or naturalist. While many of the impressionists painted en plein air, Degas worked with models in his studio and, later in his career, from his imagination. In addition to painting, he experimented often with monotypes, engraving, pastels, sculpture, and photography. He traveled extensively-London, Naples, Spain, Morocco, and Switzerland-but continued to draw his subject matter from modern-day Paris. Other recurring themes would be the female nude and the ballet dancer. After the impressionist exhibition of 1886, Degas no longer participated in group shows. Instead he sold his works to private dealers such as Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard. In the 1890s he began his own art collection, which, besides many works on paper, included paintings by such artists as Ingres, C\u00e9zanne (q.v.), Delacroix (q.v.), Gauguin (q.v.), and van Gogh (q.v.). His own art at the time became characterized by broader strokes of paint, charcoal, and pastel and the use of more vibrant colors, partly because of problems with his vision. His failing eyesight and poor health caused him to abandon his pursuit of art during the last years of his life.",
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