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"title": "Head of a Man",
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"inscription": "signed, upper right, in metalpoint: A. Legros [underlined] / 1886 (according to Butkin records, above the preceding there is an inscription, currently covered by the mount, that reads \"\u00e0 mon ami F. W. Burton\"); verso of secondary support, lower left, in graphite: Le gros [sideways]",
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"title": "French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin",
"description": "French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. 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": "T. Edward Hanley Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art (1957).",
"opening_date": "1957-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Gallery of Modern Art, New York (January 3 - March 12, 1967); Philadelphia Museum of Art (April 6 - May 28, 1967); Denver Art Museum (February 22 - April 30, 1968).",
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"description": "Visages du dix-neuvi\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris (December 1 - 15, 1977).",
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"description": "T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, PA",
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"description": "Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"did_you_know": "The artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler encouraged Alphonse Legros to visit London in 1863, and he spent the rest of his life there.",
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"description": "This drawing, which appears to be a portrait at first glance, is difficult to categorize. Alphonse Legros created many such images while teaching in London, at the school of South Kensington and then at the Slade School, where he advised his students to directly copy the Old Masters. Legros combined depiction of live models with references to art of the past, as seen here. He used the thin lines of metalpoint for expressive means on this sheet.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 25",
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"citation": "Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 118-19, 143, no. 54; Reproduced: p. 119",
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