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    "label": "Two Boats at the Harbor of Dieppe",
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    "id": "74601",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Two Boats at the Harbor of Dieppe",
    "description": "In this late drawing, Eugène Delacroix used spare layers of watercolor to record two large boats floating in a harbor, contrasting the bright tones of the French flags flying on both with the subdued hues of the water surrounding them. The artist recorded the scene during one of five stays in Dieppe, a coastal town that became a popular vacation destination after it was connected to Paris by train in 1848. Delacroix was passionate about depicting the sea and its environs and created numerous variations of this subject over the course of about a decade.",
    "date": "1854",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.108",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q107273153"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Image: 22.5 x 34.6 cm (8 7/8 x 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 22.5 x 34.6 cm (8 7/8 x 13 5/8 in.); Mounted: 24 x 36 cm (9 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
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    "tec": "watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board",
    "tombstone": "Two Boats at the Harbor of Dieppe, 1854. Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863). Watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board; image: 22.5 x 34.6 cm (8 7/8 x 13 5/8 in.); sheet: 22.5 x 34.6 cm (8 7/8 x 13 5/8 in.); mounted: 24 x 36 cm (9 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2021.108",
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscribed, at bottom center, in brown ink: 1er 7b [septembre]; inscribed along lower margin of board, in pencil: 1854 [illeg.]; at lower left, in black ink: stamp of Marcel Louis Guérin [1873-1948; Lugt 1872b]; at lower right, in red ink: Delacroix studio stamp [Lugt 838a]"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Eugène Delacroix described making this drawing in his journal, writing on September 1, 1854: “Drew from my window, before dinner, some boats.”",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue de la vente…Eugène Delacroix</em>. Paris: Hotel Drouot, 1864",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 70, no. 600 (probably included in this lot of 20 drawings)"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Robaut, Alfred, Ernest Chesneau, and Fernand Calmettes. L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. Paris: Charavay Frères, 1885.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 339, no. 1270",
            "url": "https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65582518/f416.item"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>19th Century European Paintings</em>. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 285"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Eugène Delacroix: Journal (1822-1857)</em>. Paris: José Corti, 2009",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 820, no. 365"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.108",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Muriel Butkin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 04:57:02.741000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.108/2021.108_print.jpg",
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    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - French",
    "med": "watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board",
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    ],
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}

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