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    "localId": "166629",
    "label": "Male Academy with Wings",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing"
}

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    "id": "166629",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Male Academy with Wings",
    "description": "Academically trained artists often practiced drawing live models. Called academies, these figure studies occasionally served as preparatory drawings for paintings. Some artists crafted their academies to appeal to collectors interested in contemplating technical skill and inventiveness. Boucher may have imaginatively given wings to this male nude, who does not appear in any known painting, to demonstrate his ingenuity by transforming the model into a mythological figure.",
    "date": "1745–50",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.350",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "creators": [
        1888
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.350/2008.350_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.350/2008.350_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 30.1 x 37.1 cm (11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 18th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2008.35"
}

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    "tec": "red chalk on cream laid paper",
    "tombstone": "Male Academy with Wings, 1745–50. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Red chalk on cream laid paper; overall: 30.1 x 37.1 cm (11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.350",
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            "description": "cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "verso, upper left, in graphite: M; center right, in graphite: [c--c 2ff?] [sideways]; lower right, in graphite: [illegible, partially erased inscription four lines long]; lower center, in graphite: M[illegible]; lower right, in graphite: pr cadre"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foster, Carter E. \"Jean-Bernard Restout's \"sleep: Figure Study\": Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.\" <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 3 (1998): 48-85.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 27",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079698"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8, p. 26-27"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.350",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Muriel Butkin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:36:19.603000",
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    "sourceId": 166629,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - French",
    "med": "red chalk on cream laid paper",
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        "male"
    ],
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}

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