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    "label": "Three Fishermen Along the Banks of a River at the Edge of a Forest",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Three Fishermen Along the Banks of a River at the Edge of a Forest",
    "description": "Adolphe Appian was renowned during the 19th century for his mastery of charcoal drawing. He specialized in large-scale landscapes depicting Lyon, his native region in southeastern France, and focused on what he termed “private little corners” rather than grandiose views. This drawing is one of several in which Appian depicted the winding Rhône River and the dense trees and large boulders that surrounded it. Two small fishermen give a sense of scale and draw the viewer into the scene. Appian worked with charcoal sticks and powder, wiping the material with cloth, paper, and even breadcrumbs before scratching into the paper’s surface to create an unprecedented tonal range.",
    "date": "1868",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 59.4 x 98.5 cm (23 3/8 x 38 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 60.5 x 99.5 cm (23 13/16 x 39 3/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "charcoal with stumping and scratching out and touches of white chalk on beige paper",
    "tombstone": "Three Fishermen Along the Banks of a River at the Edge of a Forest, 1868. Adolphe Appian (French, 1818–1898). Charcoal with stumping and scratching out and touches of white chalk on beige paper; sheet: 59.4 x 98.5 cm (23 3/8 x 38 3/4 in.); secondary support: 60.5 x 99.5 cm (23 13/16 x 39 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2021.140",
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    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscribed, lower left, in dark brown ink: Appian 1868"
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    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Adolphe Appian was so well known for his skillful use of charcoal that many artists wrote to him asking for technical advice.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Master Drawings: Vasari to Bonnard. </em>Exh. cat. New York: W. M. Brady &amp; Co., 2017.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 33"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Dumas, Ann, Leïla Jarbouai, Christopher Lloyd, and Harriet K. Stratis. Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec. London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 44, fig. 28"
        },
        {
            "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. 110-111, no. 15"
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
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