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        "title": "Portrait of Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1850s",
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        "department": "Drawings",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 43.6 x 30.7 cm (17 3/16 x 12 1/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "Watermark: Wise / 1820, vertical at lower right",
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                "inscription": "Signed, at lower right, in black chalk: \u201cA Bida\u201d",
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                    "description": "Shepherd Gallery.  \"French Nineteenth-Century Drawings-Pastels-Watercolors:  November 1977-February 1978.\"  New York:  Shepherd Gallery, 1977:  catalogue # 7, illustrated.",
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                "description": "Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980]",
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                "description": "Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008]",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "March 4, 2019",
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        "did_you_know": "Alexandre Bida was an accomplished illustrator and produced images to accompany an 1865 edition of the works of Alfred de Musset, this portrait\u2019s sitter.",
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        "description": "This portrait is one of only a few that Alexandre Bida\u2014known primarily for his depictions of North Africa\u2014created during his career. It depicts the celebrated French poet and novelist Alfred de Musset (1810\u20131857). Bida was commissioned to create illustrations for an 1865 publication of Musset\u2019s collected writings, and the drawing was likely completed in commemoration of that project.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2019.62-portrait-of-alfred-d"
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            {
                "citation": "Rohowsky, Peter S. French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors: Nov. 1977-Feb. 1978. New York: Shepherd Gallery Associates, 1977.",
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