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    "localId": "149088",
    "label": "Landscape Near Paris",
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    "id": "149088",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Landscape Near Paris",
    "description": "In his delicate studies of flowers and fields, like this panoramic view of the distant Paris, Bonvin captured the beauty of nature, observed with an innocent, untrained eye. His untutored responses to nature permitted him to be more experimental than his contemporaries working in watercolor. A realist in his rendering of natural detail, Bonvin simultaneously foreshadowed Impressionism with his interest in light and atmosphere.",
    "date": "c. 1860",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 9.3 x 25 cm (3 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper",
    "tombstone": "Landscape Near Paris, c. 1860. Léon Bonvin (French, 1834–1866). Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper; sheet: 9.3 x 25 cm (3 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Arthur Mann, 1977.22",
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        {
            "inscription": "VERSO, center, in black ink: 35.49. [upsidedown] ; ON A SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (now removed and in departmental file), inscribed in brown ink: 158.  Vue panoramiq[cropped] / environs de Paris - aquarelle / Léon Bonvin."
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        {
            "citation": "Guichané, Maud, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Léon Bonvin, Jo Briggs, Ger Luijten, and Michèle Quentin. Drawn to the Everyday: Léon Bonvin 1834-1866 : Catalogue Raisonné. Paris : Fondation Custodia, 2022.",
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