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        "tombstone": "Althaea Putting the Fatal Log on the Fire, 1712. Bernard Picart (French, 1673\u20131733). Red chalk on beige laid paper, incised for transfer; sheet: 29.4 x 27.5 cm (11 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.360",
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        "title": "Althaea Putting the Fatal Log on the Fire",
        "creation_date": "1712",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 29.4 x 27.5 cm (11 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "signed, lower left, in red chalk: B. Picart. del. 1712; verso, lower left, in blue crayon: 136",
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                    "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).",
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                    "id": 282301,
                    "title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings",
                    "description": "<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).",
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        "description": "This drawing depicts a scene from the life of Meleager, a figure from Greek mythology who was prophesied to die when a log in the fireplace at the time of his birth completely burned. At that time, Meleager\u2019s mother, Althaea, put out the log and stowed it away for safekeeping. Years later, in the scene depicted here, Althaea exacts revenge on Meleager for killing her brothers in a dispute. Two Furies, goddesses of vengeance, compel the anguished mother to punish her murderous son by burning the fatal log. Picart made this drawing while overseeing the reproduction of Le Brun\u2019s suite of tapestries narrating tales of Meleager into prints. Picart himself made drawings from the tapestries, of which this sheet is an example. The drawings were then used as guides by printmakers Picart hired to re-create the images as engravings.",
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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.",
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