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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).",
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"description": "Philippe Burty, Tableaux et dessins de l'\u00e9cole fran\u00e7aise, principalement du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle, tir\u00e9s de collections d'amateurs, Galerie Francis Petit, Paris (1860), 58, no. 283;",
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"description": "Dessins de ma\u00eetres anciens, \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1879), no. 621 (exh. cat.: Catalogue descriptif des dessins de Ma\u00eetres Anciens expos\u00e9s \u00e0 l'\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts [Paris: Georges Chamerot, 1879], 150, no. 62).",
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"description": "Moreau le jeune was an important draftsman, printmaker, and book illustrator who was championed by the celebrated French writers of the 19th century Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules (1830-1870) de Goncourt, who also owned this drawing (the collector's stamp bearing their name can be seen in the lower left corner of the sheet). The drawing may represent a relative of the 18th-century French poet Louis Gresset (1709-1777). A portrait drawing by Moreau le jeune of Gresset-now at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame-has many similarities to this one.",
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"citation": "Burty, Philippe. Catalogue de tableaux et dessins de l'e\u0301cole franc\u0327aise, principalement du XVIIIe sie\u0300cle, tire\u0301s de collections d'amateurs, et expose\u0301s au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et dessinateurs. Paris: [Impr. de J. Claye], 1860.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 283, p. 58",
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"citation": "Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 16, p. 43-44",
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"citation": "E\u0301cole Nationale Supe\u0301rieure Des Beaux-arts (France), Charles Ephrussi, and Gustave Dreyfus. Catalogue Descriptif Des Dessins De Mai\u0302tres Anciens Expose\u0301s A\u0300 L'e\u0301cole Des Beaux-Arts Mai-Juin 1879. 2e E\u0301d ed. Paris: Typ. G. Chamerot, 1879.",
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