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{
    "localId": "144666",
    "label": "Louis XIV Captured by Venus",
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    "title": "Louis XIV Captured by Venus",
    "date": "early 1670s",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 29.2 x 40.8 cm (11 1/2 x 16 1/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "black chalk, graphite, and brush and gray wash",
    "tombstone": "Louis XIV Captured by Venus, early 1670s. Studio of Charles Le Brun (French, 1619–1690), Adam Frans van der Meulen (Flemish, 1632–1690). Black chalk, graphite, and brush and gray wash; sheet: 29.2 x 40.8 cm (11 1/2 x 16 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund, 1969.29",
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            "description": "vellum or imitation vellum laid down on wood panel"
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    ],
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    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "VERSO, ON WOOD PANEL, upper left,  in brown ink [on sticker]: Louis XIV / & / Duc[illegible] Montespan / by / Le Brun & / Van der Meulen ; [on same sticker] in graphite: [809?] ; center, in brown ink [on Schillersdorfer Schloss-Inventar sticker]: 47 ; upper left, in black paint: K6505 [sideways] ; upper left, in red crayon: AR 733 ; center right, in blue crayon: AR 733 ; lower center, in blue crayon: Iv. 2289"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Webb, Sheila, and Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Paper, the Continuous Thread</em>. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 17, 66, no. 4; Reproduced: p. 19"
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