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        "tombstone": "Study of the Sabine Statue from the Villa Medici, c. 1775\u20131780. Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748\u20131825). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash; sheet: 21.4 x 14.8 cm (8 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.343",
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        "title": "Study of the Sabine Statue from the Villa Medici",
        "creation_date": "c. 1775\u20131780",
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            "France, 18th century"
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        "department": "Drawings",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 21.4 x 14.8 cm (8 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "by artist, lower left, in brown ink: ala villa / medicis; by Jules David, lower left, in brown ink: J. D. [Lugt 1437]; by Eug\u00e8ne David, lower right, in brown ink: E D _ [Lugt 839]",
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                    "id": 187360,
                    "title": "French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin",
                    "description": "<i>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).",
                    "opening_date": "2001-08-26T00:00:00"
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                "description": "Estate of the artist [first atelier sale, Paris (17 April 1826), no. 66 (Album 10 of the \"douze grands livres de croquis\")]; [second atelier sale, Paris (11 March 1835), no. 16 (Album 10)]; M. A. Chassagnolle, Paris, as of 1835 (Album 10); Solange de Ludre Frolois (marquise de Ludre) (?-1949) (Album 10); marquise de Lau d'Allemans (Album 10) (according to Butkin records); Madame de Chaumont-Quitry (Album 10) (according to Butkin records); [Galerie Charpentier, Paris (15 March 1956), no. 11 (Album 10)]; [Germain Seligmann, New York (1958?)]; [Christie's, London (7 July 1959), no. 53 (\"Squires\" according to typed price list of sale)]; [Sotheby's, London (4 July 1975), no. 149]; [Jenkins Company, Austin, Texas]; [Stuart Greenspan, New York (1979)]; purchased in 1979.",
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        "description": "This drawing depicts a classical sculpture (see photo) said to represent a Sabine (the Sabines were a village people who resided northeast of ancient Rome). David saw the statue at Rome's Villa Medici, a fact he noted by inscribing the location at the lower left corner of this study. The artist made the sketch early in his career, during his 1775-80 stay in Italy as winner of the coveted Rome Prize scholarship. This and the many other drawings and tracings that David made after ancient sculpture and vases in Italy helped him later become the leader of neoclassical painting.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2008.343-study-of-the-sabine"
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                "citation": "Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
                "page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 17, p. 44-45, Reproduced: p. 45",
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                "description": "Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748\u20131825)",
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                "biography": "The founder and leading painter of the neoclassical movement in France, Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris to a prosperous family of artists and archi-tects. In 1766 he entered the Acad\u00e9mie Royale as the pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). After several failed attempts, David won the Prix de Rome in 1774. The following year he left for Italy, where he studied antique art and envisioned replacing the frivolity of the rococo with an art of grandeur, simplicity, and moral virtue. After returning to Paris in 1780, he established his reputa-tion with three spectacular successes at the Salon: The Oath of the Horatii (1785, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris), The Death of Socrates (1787, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), and The Lictors Bring-ing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris). Widely interpreted as moral parables for contemporary political events, these archetypes of neoclassical aesthetics set the standard for academic painting of the next century. In the 1790s David joined the radical Jacobin Club and played an active role in the French Revolution. He allied himself with Robespierre, served a short term as president of the Convention, and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. He also placed his artistic talents at the service of the Revolution by creating paintings that glorified its martyrs and by organizing public festivals that celebrated the new political order. As the most prominent artist in the revolutionary ranks, he led the attack against the Acad\u00e9mie Royale that culminated in its abolish-ment in 1793. When the excesses of the Reign of Terror precipitated the fall of Robespierre in 1794, David was imprison-ed but spared execution. Authorities released him the following year due to ill health. Around 1798 David developed a new alliance with the brilliant young general of the Directory, Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte. David's painting The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris) coalesced perfectly with Napoleonic propaganda urging national reconciliation. After the coup d'\u00e9tat of 1799, Napol\u00e9on was named first consul and began supplying David with important commissions. Upon Napol\u00e9on's coronation in 1804, David was appointed first painter to the emperor. David's monumental painting The Coronation of Napol\u00e9on, or Le Sacre (1805-7, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris), introduced a less spartan, more colorful and emotive style. However, as seen in his life-size portrait Napol\u00e9on in His Study (1812, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), David increasingly searched to balance this new heroic-romanticism with an exacting realism. In 1816, following Napol\u00e9on's defeat at Waterloo and the restoration of the monarchy, David went into exile in Belgium. He spent the last nine years of his life in Brussels, painting mostly mythological subjects and portraits. David died of a stroke in 1825 and was denied burial in France.",
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