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    "localId": "109137",
    "label": "The Mender",
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    "id": "109137",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "The Mender",
    "description": "Camille Pissarro used the French countryside and its inhabitants as the subject of his art throughout his career. He frequently depicted women sewing, often outdoors or seated beside a window, as seen in this drawing. He indicated the effects of natural light illuminating his subject with the notation \"lumière\" at the left margin of the drawing.",
    "date": "c. 1881",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.298",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        1836
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.298/1927.298_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 15.1 x 10.2 cm (5 15/16 x 4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
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    "accession": "1927.298"
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    "tec": "pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite heightened with white gouache",
    "tombstone": "The Mender, c. 1881. Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903). Pen and black ink and gray wash over graphite heightened with white gouache; sheet: 15.1 x 10.2 cm (5 15/16 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1927.298",
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: C Pissarro; by artist, upper left, in graphite: lumière; by artist, upper right, in graphite: gris; by artist, upper right, in graphite: jaun; VERSO, by artist?, upper right, in graphite: CP81 / a - [illegible][crossed out]; lower left, in graphite: 21952; lower right, in graphite: Nº 13 [underlined]"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "At the time this drawing was made, Camille Pissarro lived in the small village of Pontoise. He remained there for over a decade to immerse himself in the type of rural life that he depicted in his art.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries.<em> Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, 1927.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 49"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland",
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    "creatorTags": [
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        "male"
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