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    "localId": "286185",
    "label": "Self-Portrait",
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    "id": "286185",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Self-Portrait",
    "description": "This self-portrait is one of several that Armand Guillaumin created as a young artist during the early 1870s. Around this time, he worked closely with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne, experimenting alongside them with vivid layers of color. Here, Guillaumin juxtaposed dark, dull tones with bright blue and orange to create unexpected optical blends. He meets the viewer's gaze directly, suggesting his intense focus at a period when such experimentation was just beginning to coalesce into the Impressionist movement.",
    "date": "1872",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.129",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q87481231"
    ],
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        "Drawing"
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.129/2020.129_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.129/2020.129_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Image and Sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2020.129"
}

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    "tec": "pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard",
    "tombstone": "Self-Portrait, 1872. Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841–1927). Pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard; image and sheet: 37.8 x 31.9 cm (14 7/8 x 12 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.129",
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed and dated, lower left, in black pastel: Guillaumin 72"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Armand Guillaumin came from a working-class background and was employed as a laborer for Paris's Department of Bridges and Roads in order to support his artistic ambitions.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Trabault, Marc-Edo. <em>Armand Guillaumin en famille et sur le motif</em>. Exh. cat. Anvers: Antwerpen Peré, 1971.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 74-75; Reproduced: p. 63"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gray, Christopher. <em>Armand Guillaumin.</em> Chester, CT: Pequot, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 12, 268, no. 28; Reproduced: frontispiece"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Armand Guillaumin (1841–1927): En famille et sur le motif</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Thierry Mercier, 2003.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Salsbury, Britany. \"French and Canadian Prints and Drawings.\" In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 56-57, 62-63, 166-167. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 62-63; Mentioned: p. 263"
        },
        {
            "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. 118-119, no. 18"
        }
    ],
    "catalogueRaisonne": "Gray 28",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.129",
    "creditline": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-11 12:17:40.592000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.129/2020.129_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 286185,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - French",
    "med": "pastel on cream laid paper mounted on cardboard",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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