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"tombstone": "View of the Small Grotto toward the Deer Pond, Bois de Boulogne, 1858. Charles Marville (French, 1813\u20131879). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 25.1 x 36.4 cm (9 7/8 x 14 5/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund, 1989.27",
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"title": "View of the Small Grotto toward the Deer Pond, Bois de Boulogne",
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"inscription": "Written in pencil [erased] on recto: \"No 46\"; written in pencil on verso: \"F2 [crossed out] / H2 / L2\"",
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"title": "The Year in Review for 1989",
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"title": "Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection",
"description": "Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12, 2000-January 3, 2001).",
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"title": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-June 16, 2005).",
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"title": "France at the Dawn of Photography",
"description": "France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).",
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"description": "CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990, \"Year in Review 1989,\" CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 68, no. 46.",
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; August 12, 2000 - January 3, 2001. \"Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection.\"",
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"description": "Although better known for his architectural photographs of Paris, Marville also produced magical landscapes like this image. Carefully composed, the asymmetrical composition presents a picturesque scene of a waterfall flowing from a mound of boulders in the Bois de Boulogne, a forest annexed as a Parisian city park in 1852. The sunlight filtering through the foliage creates a remarkable range of tonal and textural detail, along with lively abstract patterns of light and shadow. Trained as a painter, lithographer, and engraver, Marville took up photography around 1850. He was named official photographer of Paris in 1862 and documented the buildings and neighborhoods ultimately destroyed when the boulevards and open spaces of modern Paris were built in the late 19th century.",
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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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