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        "tombstone": "The Sea--Studies of Waves:  Wave in the Rain, 1890. Henri Rivi\u00e8re (French, 1864\u20131951). Color woodcut; sheet: 34.3 x 50.6 cm (13 1/2 x 19 15/16 in.); image: 22.6 x 34.3 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1992.109",
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        "title": "The Sea--Studies of Waves:  Wave in the Rain",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 34.3 x 50.6 cm (13 1/2 x 19 15/16 in.); Image: 22.6 x 34.3 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)",
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                {
                    "id": 311552,
                    "title": "Selected Acquisitions",
                    "description": "<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).",
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                    "title": "Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints",
                    "description": "<i>Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).",
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                    "id": 184690,
                    "title": "Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).",
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        "description": "In the second half of the 19th century, advances in photomechanical processes in France destroyed the commercial viability of using woodcut for illustration and as a reproductive medium. By the 1880s, however, this change encouraged the revival of the woodcut as an autonomous medium of expression. In 1888, the first album of L'Estampe originale (The Original Print) included six woodcuts. For the first time, woodcuts appeared as single-sheet original prints alongside the more artistically respectable media of etching and lithography. In 1858, a trade agreement was signed between France and Japan, and so from the early 1860s, Japanese color woodcuts (ukiyo-e prints) were increasingly available on the commercial market and were exhibited widely. Japanese woodcuts had a tremendous impact on French artists, who emulated their flattened pictorial space, dramatic points of view, strong light-dark contrasts, delicate colors, and surface patterns. The stylized waves in Rivi\u00e8re's <em>Wave in the Rain </em>were inspired by Japanese woodcuts like Ando Hiroshige's <em>View of the Straits of Naruto</em>, but Rivi\u00e8re also closely followed the medium of these prints, indicating in the process an unusual degree of sensitivity to his Japanese models.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1992.109-the-sea-studies-of-w"
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                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1992.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38\u201379.",
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