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249:: Collector and Connoisseur" (1996); and "Victorian Fairy Painting" (1998). After his official retirement in 1999, Munhall curated "Greuze the Draftsman" (2002) for The Frick Collection, the first show devoted to the artist's drawings. Munhall is recognized internationally as an authority on the art of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
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