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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "pattern-boucher",
  "version": "pattern-boucher.2",
  "route": "/afterlives/patterns/boucher",
  "title": "A design acquires a body.",
  "question": "How does a composition hold itself up?",
  "edition": "pattern",
  "format": "Interactive passage",
  "period": "c. 1768–78",
  "places": [
    "France"
  ],
  "themes": [
    "Pattern studies",
    "Ceramic",
    "Attributed adaptation"
  ],
  "primaryClaimId": "pattern-boucher-relationship",
  "entities": [
    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-object",
      "name": "Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces",
      "kind": "work",
      "date": "c. 1768–78",
      "sourceId": "pattern-boucher-institution",
      "catalogueSlug": "cma-142470-figure-group-of-love-carried-by-the-three-graces",
      "mediaKey": "pattern:boucher"
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-context",
      "name": "Designs attributed to François Boucher",
      "kind": "design",
      "sourceId": "pattern-boucher-institution",
      "note": "likely modeled after Boucher; exact design unidentified"
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-related-louvre",
      "name": "François Boucher, Les trois Grâces supportant l’Amour, MI 1023",
      "kind": "work",
      "date": "1765",
      "sourceId": "louvre-graces",
      "note": "Related subject documented; direct porcelain model remains unestablished."
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-relationship",
      "text": "Cleveland credits the Sèvres figure group after a design by François Boucher; its commentary says it was likely modeled after his designs.",
      "kind": "attributed-reference",
      "status": "attributed",
      "from": "pattern-boucher-context",
      "to": "pattern-boucher-object",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "pattern-boucher-institution",
          "locator": "Creator credit and description; preserve the qualification “likely”."
        }
      ],
      "limitation": "The exact source design and the object’s unseen sides are not supplied. The observation overlays locate features in this photograph; no rotation or 3D model is simulated."
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-reading",
      "text": "Artologium’s viewing instrument is an authored close reading of the supplied image, not evidence of historical transmission or a recovered original process.",
      "kind": "visual-comparison",
      "status": "editorial-observation",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "pattern-boucher-institution",
          "locator": "Complete supplied photograph; authored observations in the two reading chapters"
        }
      ],
      "limitation": "The exact source design and the object’s unseen sides are not supplied. The observation overlays locate features in this photograph; no rotation or 3D model is simulated."
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-related-composition",
      "text": "The Louvre records a Boucher painting of the Graces supporting Love in 1765 and notes its later engraving by Simonet in 1769.",
      "kind": "catalogue-fact",
      "status": "documented",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "sourceId": "louvre-graces",
          "locator": "Title, date and Historique de l’œuvre: Simonet engraving, 1769"
        }
      ],
      "limitation": "Neither this record nor the Cleveland record establishes this painting as the exact model for Cleveland’s porcelain. No Louvre image is reproduced."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "pattern-boucher-institution",
      "title": "Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces",
      "author": "The Cleveland Museum of Art",
      "url": "https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.235",
      "kind": "object-record",
      "language": "en",
      "locator": "Creator credit and description; preserve the qualification “likely”.",
      "supports": "Cleveland credits the Sèvres figure group after a design by François Boucher; its commentary says it was likely modeled after his designs.",
      "limitation": "The exact source design and the object’s unseen sides are not supplied. The observation overlays locate features in this photograph; no rotation or 3D model is simulated.",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "verification": {
        "checked": "2026-10-24",
        "method": "source-text",
        "note": "Official institution API fields reviewed, including attribution qualifiers and dimensions.",
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      }
    },
    {
      "id": "louvre-graces",
      "title": "Les trois Grâces supportant l’Amour, MI 1023",
      "author": "Musée du Louvre",
      "url": "https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059540",
      "kind": "object-record",
      "language": "fr",
      "locator": "Title, date and Historique de l’œuvre: Simonet engraving, 1769",
      "supports": "The Louvre records a 1765 Boucher composition with the Three Graces supporting Love and a later engraved reproduction.",
      "limitation": "Neither this record nor the Cleveland record establishes this painting as the exact model for Cleveland’s porcelain. No Louvre image is reproduced.",
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "verification": {
        "checked": "2026-10-24",
        "method": "source-text",
        "note": "Read the official Louvre object record. Related composition retained as a research lead, not promoted to an exact model or a cleared image."
      }
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "chapter-0",
      "title": "Keep the qualification",
      "voice": "Historical account",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The maker credit and the museum’s explanation do not have identical certainty. The catalogue names Boucher; the description says “likely.” Our story retains both instead of turning an attribution into a proven source drawing."
      ],
      "claimIds": [
        "pattern-boucher-relationship"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-1",
      "title": "A composition in contact",
      "voice": "Close reading",
      "paragraphs": [
        "Our close reading follows the visible arms, shoulders and upward movement. The interest is no longer only where figures sit in a picture. Bodies appear to hold other bodies, and the gaps between them become part of the form."
      ],
      "claimIds": [
        "pattern-boucher-reading"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "chapter-2",
      "title": "The limits of a photograph",
      "voice": "Close reading",
      "paragraphs": [
        "A single view cannot explain the back, the full manufacture or the object’s structural behavior. We can look closely at this view while leaving those questions open. The untouched source image remains one action away.",
        "A related Boucher composition survives at the Louvre as MI 1023. Its record also notes a later engraving. This opens a research path through paintings and prints; it does not establish the exact design used for this porcelain group."
      ],
      "claimIds": [
        "pattern-boucher-reading",
        "pattern-boucher-related-composition"
      ],
      "sourceIds": [
        "louvre-graces"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "treatment": {
    "kind": "print",
    "invitation": "How does a composition hold itself up?",
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      {
        "id": "chapter-0",
        "label": "01",
        "title": "Keep the qualification",
        "text": "The maker credit and the museum’s explanation do not have identical certainty. The catalogue names Boucher; the description says “likely.” Our story retains both instead of turning an attribution into a proven source drawing.",
        "claimIds": [
          "pattern-boucher-relationship"
        ],
        "entityId": "pattern-boucher-object"
      },
      {
        "id": "chapter-1",
        "label": "02",
        "title": "A composition in contact",
        "text": "Our close reading follows the visible arms, shoulders and upward movement. The interest is no longer only where figures sit in a picture. Bodies appear to hold other bodies, and the gaps between them become part of the form.",
        "claimIds": [
          "pattern-boucher-reading"
        ],
        "entityId": "pattern-boucher-object"
      },
      {
        "id": "chapter-2",
        "label": "03",
        "title": "The limits of a photograph",
        "text": "A single view cannot explain the back, the full manufacture or the object’s structural behavior. We can look closely at this view while leaving those questions open. The untouched source image remains one action away.",
        "claimIds": [
          "pattern-boucher-reading"
        ],
        "entityId": "pattern-boucher-object"
      }
    ]
  },
  "mediaKeys": [
    "pattern:boucher"
  ],
  "reception": {
    "reach": "The institution record supports the bounded relationship above; circulation and audience size have not been established.",
    "response": "No independent audience-response study is established for this investigation.",
    "consequence": "No wider societal effect is inferred from resemblance or survival."
  },
  "review": {
    "checked": "2026-10-24",
    "research": "source-checked",
    "independent": "pending",
    "assistance": "AI-assisted institutional source review and original close reading; independent specialist review pending.",
    "editorial": {
      "checked": "2026-10-24",
      "method": "AI-assisted source and prose review",
      "focus": "How does a composition hold itself up?",
      "changes": [
        "Separated the institution-attributed relationship from the authored visual instrument.",
        "Retained the missing predecessor, process or reception evidence as an explicit boundary."
      ]
    }
  },
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "pattern-boucher.1",
      "date": "2026-10-24",
      "note": "First integrated shared dossier, with source locators and separate editorial readings."
    },
    {
      "version": "pattern-boucher.2",
      "date": "2026-10-24",
      "note": "Added a related Louvre composition as a bounded research lead, with no direct-model edge or new image reproduction."
    }
  ],
  "next": [],
  "summary": "Cleveland credits the Sèvres figure group after a design by François Boucher; its commentary says it was likely modeled after his designs.",
  "canonical": "https://artologium.com/afterlives/patterns/boucher",
  "releaseStatus": "Local review edition; editorially revised with AI assistance; independent specialist review pending",
  "socialPreview": "Canonical investigation card. Selected passage is preserved in the URL and export, not pictured in the card.",
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      "slug": "cma-142470-figure-group-of-love-carried-by-the-three-graces",
      "title": "Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces",
      "creator": "Sèvres Porcelain Factory (French, est. 1756); after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)",
      "date": "c. 1768–78",
      "institution": "The Cleveland Museum of Art",
      "accession": "1966.235",
      "creditLine": "The Norweb Collection",
      "license": "CC0",
      "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
      "sourceUrl": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.235",
      "src": "/images/patterns/boucher.jpg",
      "width": 684,
      "height": 893,
      "alt": "Figure Group of Love Carried by the Three Graces — Ceramic by Sèvres Porcelain Factory; after a design by François Boucher. unglazed soft-paste porcelain (biscuit).",
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      "rightsStatus": "open",
      "changes": "Complete source image. Any displayed details are CSS crops; the source viewer always shows the unmarked complete image.",
      "sourceImage": "/images/patterns/boucher.jpg",
      "rightsSource": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
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      "retrieved": "2026-10-24",
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