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    "label": "Portrait of a Woman near a Fountain, a Rose in Her Hand",
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    "title": "Portrait of a Woman near a Fountain, a Rose in Her Hand",
    "description": "The Dutch artist Johann Thopas made meticulous drawn portraits of merchants and intellectuals in the Dutch city of Assendelft. His drawn portraits—made faster and for less expense than painted portraits—appealed to middle-class patrons, as did his unique style combining naturalistic likenesses with elaborate background settings. Using a combination of leadpoint and ink, Thopas achieved remarkable tonal subtlety in this image of a well-dressed woman holding a flower in front of an ornate neoclassical garden.",
    "date": "1680–85",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Support: 33.2 x 25.7 cm (13 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.); Image: 22 x 18.9 cm (8 11/16 x 7 7/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "lead point with accents in black ink on vellum",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of a Woman near a Fountain, a Rose in Her Hand, 1680–85. Johan Thopas (Dutch, 1630–1700). Lead point with accents in black ink on vellum; support: 33.2 x 25.7 cm (13 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.); image: 22 x 18.9 cm (8 11/16 x 7 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.13",
    "collection": "DR - Dutch",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "verso, number “4” in graphite"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "collector’s stamp “PG”? in red ink"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Thopas was both deaf and mute.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foskett, Daphne. A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters. London: Faber and Faber, 1972.",
            "page_number": "Vol. 1, p. 548"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foskett, Daphne. Collecting Miniatures. Woodbridge, Eng: Antique Collectors' Club, 1979.",
            "page_number": "p. 143"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ekkart, Rudolf E. O., Johannes Thopas, and Peter van den Brink. Deaf, dumb & brilliant: Johannes Thopas, master draughtsman. 2014.",
            "page_number": "p. 84, fig. 49, cat. no. 61, p. 132"
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