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"inscription": "signed, lower right, in gray wash: Gavarni; by artist, lower left, in gray wash: Banlieue. Nourrisseur et Capitaine; upper right, in graphite: [5?]7; verso, lower right, in graphite: ntb 2; lower right, in red crayon: No 81 [upside down, underlined]",
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"title": "French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin",
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"description": "Old Master Drawings and French Drawings of the 19th Century, London (Summer 1975).",
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"description": "Non-Dissenters: Fifth Exhibition Marking Our Tenth Anniversary. Shepherd Gallery, New York (November 1-December 31, 1976).",
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"description": "The subject here-a man who raises livestock and happens to be a captain as well-is one in a long line of Parisian characters that Gavarni chronicled in his career. This sheet once belonged to the collection of the artist's watercolors made for the important Parisian publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Composed of about 200 sheets executed mostly in 1859-60, Hetzel's collection was a rare ensemble of the artist's best work in the medium.",
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"citation": "Lemoisne, Paul-Andre\u0301. Gavarni, peintre et lithographe. Paris: H. Floury, 1924.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 208, 210",
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"citation": "Hotel Drouot, Paris. Tableaux Modernes, Aquarelles, Dessins, Pastels, Gravures. December 3, 1925. Lot 23.",
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"citation": "Bunzl, Yvonne Tan. Old Master Drawings and French Drawings of the 19th Century. London: Correspondence C/o Barclays Bank, 1975.",
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"citation": "Shepherd Gallery. Non-Dissenters: One Hundred and Seventy French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1976.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 88",
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"citation": "Masheck, Joseph, \"Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York,\" Burlington Magazine 119, no. 889 (April 1977), 307-308.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 308; Reproduced: fig. 116, p. 309",
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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.",
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