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        "tombstone": "Charity, c. 1590. Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1564\u20131651). Oil on wood; framed: 87 x 100 x 10.2 cm (34 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 4 in.); unframed: 68.6 x 54.5 cm (27 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1994.10",
        "current_location": "213 Dutch Painting",
        "title": "Charity",
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        "creation_date_earliest": 1585,
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        "measurements": "Framed: 87 x 100 x 10.2 cm (34 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 4 in.); Unframed: 68.6 x 54.5 cm (27 x 21 7/16 in.)",
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                    "title": "Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and His Time",
                    "description": "<i>Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and His Time</i>. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg, FL (organizer) (January 28-April 8, 2001).",
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                "description": "Private collection, Caracas, Venezuela",
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                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Sotheby's informed Jack Kilgore upon his purchase of the painting in 1993 that it was formerly owned by a private collector in Caracas.</div>"
                ],
                "date": "Probably until 1992",
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                "description": "(Sotheby\u2019s, New York, Jan. 17, 1992, no. 18 [as \"attributed to Abraham Bloemaert\"]; unsold)",
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                "date": "1992",
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                "description": "American private collection?",
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                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->According to Marcel Roethlisberger\u2019s <em>Abraham Bloemaert and Sons </em>(1993), the painting was in an American private collection (attributed to Spranger) after it failed to sell at Sotheby\u2019s in 1992. However, presumably, the painting remained with the consignor to that sale afterwards; that is, the Caracas private collector.&nbsp; Thus, the reference to the American private collection is questionable.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>"
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                "date": "1992-1993?",
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            },
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                "description": "(Sotheby\u2019s, New York, private treaty sale, June 16, 1993, sold to Jack Kilgore)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1993",
                "sortorder": 4
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                "description": "(Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "date": "1993-1994",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
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        "did_you_know": "Charity is almost always personified as a woman with children.",
        "description": "Abraham Bloemaert drew on traditional depictions of the Virgin and Child for this allegorical image of Charity: a woman surrounded by children, one an infant for whom she has bared her breast. Bloemaert was one of the leading proponents of the Mannerist style in the Northern Netherlands. Characteristics of that style include exaggerated figural proportions, contorted poses, heightened colors, densely packed compositions, and a deliberate eroticism\u2014invoked here to emphasize the magnetic quality of Charity\u2019s serene beauty.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60477045"
            ],
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1994.10-charity"
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            {
                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore &amp; Co., painting information sheet, in CMA curatorial file.</div>",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 22, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>",
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                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 22, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Roethlisberger, Marcel, and Marten Jan Bok. <em>Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints</em>. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1993.&nbsp;</div>",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Important Old Master Paintings</em>. Jan. 17, 1992.</div>",
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            },
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                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Roethlisberger, Marcel, and Marten Jan Bok. <em>Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints</em>. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1993.&nbsp;</div><div><!--block--><br></div>",
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            },
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                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore &amp; Co., painting information sheet, in CMA curatorial file.</div>",
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            },
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                "citation": "<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 22, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>",
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                "citation": "Roethlisberger, Marcel, and Marten Jan Bok. <em>Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints</em>. 2 vols. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1993.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 86, no. 37; reproduced: fig. 72",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions to the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection,\u201d August 26, 1994, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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                "citation": "Roethlisberger, Marcel. \"Early Abraham Bloemaert.\" <em>Tableau </em>(Dec. 1994): 44 ff.<em><br></em>",
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                "page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 2, p. 37; Reproduced: cover",
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