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    "localId": "447789",
    "label": "Footpath in the Woods",
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    "id": "447789",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Footpath in the Woods",
    "description": "Paul Cezanne is known for moving beyond the visible brushwork of Impressionism toward a “constructive stroke,” in which each mark built a cohesive whole. He favored subjects that he saw as timeless, including landscape, the focus of this watercolor. Cezanne depicted chestnut trees at the Jas de Bouffan, his family estate outside Aix-en-Provence in southern France. He used graphite lines and areas of muted watercolor, but also the whiteness of his sheet of paper to represent the scene. The artist worked in watercolor throughout his entire career, seeing it as a site of experimentation and for developing new ideas.",
    "date": "1882–84",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.165",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117246986"
    ],
    "creators": [
        1754
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.165/2021.165_web.jpg",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.165/2021.165_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Support: 51.6 x 35.9 cm (20 5/16 x 14 1/8 in.); Matted: 62.9 x 48.3 x 0.6 cm (24 3/4 x 19 x 1/4 in.); Image: 47.9 x 31.4 cm (18 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France"
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    "accession": "2021.165"
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    "tec": "watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper",
    "tombstone": "Footpath in the Woods, 1882–84. Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906). Watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper; support: 51.6 x 35.9 cm (20 5/16 x 14 1/8 in.); matted: 62.9 x 48.3 x 0.6 cm (24 3/4 x 19 x 1/4 in.); image: 47.9 x 31.4 cm (18 7/8 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2021.165",
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, in pencil, on verso: Vollard"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This drawing was once owned by collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein, in whose Parisian apartment it would have been seen by a young Pablo Picasso.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Cézanne, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Bronzen von Edgar Degas</em>. Exh. cat. Berlin: Galerie Flechtheim, 1927.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 38"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Scheffler, Karl. “Französische Zeichnungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bei Paul Cassirer.” <em>Kunst und Künstler </em>28, no. 5 (1930): 192."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Venturi, Lionello. <em>Cézanne: Son art, son œuvre</em>. Paris: Paul Rosenberg, 1936.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 242, no. 838; Reproduced vol. 2, pl. 273"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Adriani, Götz. <em>Cézanne Watercolors. </em>Translated by Russell M. Stockman. New York: Abrams, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 288, no. 124"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rewald, John. <em>Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors.</em> Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 126–27, no. 170"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rewald, John. <em>Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. </em> Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 61–62"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bishop, Janet, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds. <em>The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde</em>, 366, 369, 372, 397 (ill.), no. 16. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 366, 369, 372, no. 16; Reproduced: p. 397"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bishop, Janet, Cécile Debray, Rebecca Rabinow, and Gary Tinterow, eds. <em>Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso: L’Aventure des Stein. </em>Exh. cat. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 153; Reproduced: p. 396"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ruppen, Fabienne. <em>Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne’s Works on Paper. </em>Exh. cat. London: Luxembourg &amp; Dayan, 2019.",
            "page_number": "Mentoined: pp. 22, 66, no. 10; Reproduced: p. 67"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. <em>The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné.</em> Published online, 2020.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 1118",
            "url": "http://www.cezannecatalogue.com"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Salsbury, Britany. “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: Acquiring the now-on-view Cleveland collection.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 8-9.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-01/page/n7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 132-135, no. 23"
        }
    ],
    "catalogueRaisonne": "Venturi 838; Rewald 170; FWN 1118",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.165",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:02:21.472000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.165/2021.165_print.jpg",
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    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - French",
    "med": "watercolor and graphite on modern laid paper",
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    ],
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    "image_url": null
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