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    "localId": "140351",
    "label": "Arab Woman",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "140351",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Arab Woman",
    "date": "c. 1852–53",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.30",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 34.3 x 22.5 cm (13 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 36 x 24.1 cm (14 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.3"
}

{
    "tec": "black chalk, with red chalk,  heightened with white chalk",
    "tombstone": "Arab Woman, c. 1852–53. Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820–1876). Black chalk, with red chalk,  heightened with white chalk; sheet: 34.3 x 22.5 cm (13 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.); secondary support: 36 x 24.1 cm (14 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund, 1964.30",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "blue wove(?) paper laid down on gray-blue wove paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Verso of secondary support, lower left, in graphite: # [4?]6"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "lower left, in graphite: FROMENTIN. Eugene / 1820-1876"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "lower center, in graphite: 2)"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "lower right, in graphite: [dunkle?] / white"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Thompson, James and Barbara Wright. <em>La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Eugène Fromentin</em>. Paris: ACR Édition, 1987.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 143"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Year in Review for 1964.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 10 (1964).",
            "page_number": "p. 265, no. 117, repr. p. 245",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152021."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cable, Patrick Shaw. “From North Africa to the Black Sea: Nineteenth-Century French Orientalist Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 7 (2002): 104–125.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 112, fig. 7",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079721"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.30",
    "creditline": "L. E. Holden Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:12:31.392000",
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}

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