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    "localId": "394791",
    "label": "Lingerie Boutique and Conversation (verso)",
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    "id": "394791",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Lingerie Boutique and Conversation (verso)",
    "description": "Gabriel de Saint-Aubin was known for his distinctively sketchy style and interest in depicting performances such as dance and theater, the subjects seen here. The artist developed a distinctive composite style of sketching, and this work exemplifies his practice of covering both sides of a sheet of paper with diverse images in varying media.",
    "date": "c. 1765–75",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.256.b",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.256.b/2019.256.b_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 21.7 x 17 cm (8 9/16 x 6 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 18th century"
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    "accession": "2019.256.b"
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    "tec": "Pen, brown ink, laid paper",
    "tombstone": "Lingerie Boutique and Conversation (verso), c. 1765–75. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780). Pen, brown ink, laid paper; sheet: 21.7 x 17 cm (8 9/16 x 6 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2019.256.b",
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Watermark: C(?) TORE(?)"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Because of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin’s focus on social events and contemporary culture, his drawings are considered important records of eighteenth-century Parisian life.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Musée des arts décoratifs (France), and International Confederation of Dealers in Works of Art. Chefs-d'œuvre de la curiosité du monde: 2e exposition internationale de la C.I.N.O.A., 10 juin-30 septembre 1954. [Paris]: [Les Presses Artistiques], 1954.",
            "page_number": "pl. 42",
            "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/10397996"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Slatkin, Charles E. Exhibition of Drawings by Old and Modern Masters. New York: Charles E. Slatkin, 1956.",
            "page_number": "pl. XIX"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Charles E. Slatkin Galleries. French Master Drawings, Renaissance to Modern. A Loan Exhibition, February 10 Through March 7, 1959. 1959.",
            "page_number": "p. 9, no. 46"
        },
        {
            "citation": "University of Minnesota, Lorenz Eitner, and Sidney Simon. The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists, a Loan Exhibition, January 24 to March 7, 1961. Minneapolis: University Gallery, 1961.",
            "page_number": "p. 30, no. 84"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.256.b",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Muriel Butkin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:58:55.195000",
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    "med": "Pen, brown ink, laid paper",
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