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»5ᵐᵉ exposition de peinture
faite par un groupe d'artistes indépendants«
1880



Fifth exhibition in Paris in 1880

1 - 30 April 1880
Paris, Rue des Pyramides 10
232 works in the catalogue (3 out of catalogue) - 19 artists

 
 

The fifth exhibition was not a comprehensive presentation of the Impressionists. The term Impressionism still did not appear in the title of the exhibition at the instigation of Edgar Degas. It was called: "Exhibition of Independent Painters". Of the original Impressionist painters, only Pissarro, Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot (who returned after a break due to the birth of her child), Degas and Guillaumin remained. Mary Cassatt (who did not see herself as an Impressionist painter) and Paul Gauguin took part in the presentation for the second time. All other participants can only be counted among the Impressionists. Monet, Cézanne, Renoir and Sisley did not take part in the 1880 exhibition because they wanted to pursue other paths.

Rooms were found in the Rue des Pyramides for the month of April in 1880. The 19 artists brought together over 200 works. According to the catalogue, the following took part: Marie Bracquemond and Félix Bracquemond, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain, Paul Gauguin, Armand Guillaumin, Albert Lebourg, Jean-Baptiste Léopold Levert, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Jean-François Raffaëlli, Jean-Marius Raffaëlli, Henri Rouart, Charles Tillot, Eugène-Vincent Vidal, Victor Vignon, Frederico Zandomeneghi.

 
 

The ladies were not mentioned on the poster.

Catalogue (inside) of the fifth exhibition

 


Invitation card to the fifth exhibition - interesting that the participating painters Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot are not named here either, as on the poster.


Examples from the fifth Impressionist exhibition in 1880

 

The numbers listed in the 1880 catalog are placed before the image title below. The art techniques or descriptions specified in detail in the catalogue are also listed.
The image titles correspond to those in the 1880 catalog. (Today, some titles are different.)

The provenance information lists those research sources
that provide reliable evidence for the respective work in the exhibition.
• = The sources for the 1880 exhibition suggest a possibility or assumption
that the painting may have been shown in the exhibition.


> Moffett = Charles S. Moffett: The New Painting, 1974
Catalogue with details of exhibited works in 1880
> Berson = Ruth Berson: The New Painting, 1996 (Volume 2)
Presentation of documented works exhibited in 1880
> Museum = Information in the museum's collection on the work's exhibition history
> Catalogue Raisonné = Artist's catalogue raisonné with exhibition details
> Newspaper reports 1880 = Ruth Berson: The New Painting, 1996 (Volume 1):
Related reports in (mostly) Parisian newspapers in 1880 on the exhibition



Marie Bracquemond

 

Marie Bracquemond - Photo from ca. 1884/86 (Photographer unknown)

 
 

She was one of the three women in the exhibition. Incidentally, none of the three women were named on the poster or the advert for the exhibition (as was customary at that time). Her talent never developed, as her husband Felix was jealous of her success. After 1890, she gave up painting completely. She only took part in three exhibitions: 1879, 1880 and the last one in 1886.

 
 

3 pictures in the catalogue

 

No. 1 - Portrait.
1880 - 180 x 105 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880

 

( No. 2 - L'Hirondelle )
Design - exhibited original lost
1880 - 23 x 30 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Berson

 

No. 3 - Étude d'après nature.
ca. 1880 - 42 x 55 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
• Provenance: Moffett/Auktion Articurial France

 

(except catalogue) hc. - Sur la terrasse à Sevre
ca. 1880 - 88 x 115 cm - Oil on canvas
Petit Palais Geneve, Suisse
• Provenance: Moffett




Gustave Caillebotte

 

11 pictures in the catalogue



No. 6 - Dans un café.
1880 - 155 x 115 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée de Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 142/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 7 - Portrait de M. J. R.
1879 - 100 x 81 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 129/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 8 - Portrait de M. G. C.
1879/80 - 90 x 115 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Berson/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 111/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 9 - Intérieur.
1880 - 116 x 89 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Berson/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 140/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 10 - Intérieur.
1880 - 65 x 81 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 139/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 11 - Nature morte.
1879 - 50 x 60 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 133/Newspaper reports from 1880

 

No. 12 - Vue prise à travers un balcon.
1880 - 65 x 55 cm - Oil on canvas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands >
Provenance: Moffett/Museum/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 147/Newspaper reports from 1880

 

No. 13 - Vue de Paris, soleil.
1880 - 105 x 70 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 105/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 14 - Portrait de M. C. D. Pastel.
1877 - 73 x 60 cm - Pastel on paper
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 70/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 15 - Tête d’enfant. Pastel.
1877 - 73 x 60 cm - Pastel on paper
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Caillebotte Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 69/Newspaper reports from 1880




 
 

Mary Cassatt

 

16 pictures in the catalogue




No. 17 - Portrait de Mme J.
1879/80 - 80 x 65 cm - Oil on canvas
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


Nr 20 - Sur le balcon.
1878/79 - 90 x 65 cm - Oil on canvas
Art Institute Chicago, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880



Nr 21 - Le thé.
1880 - 65 x 92 cm - Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 22 - Au théâtre.
1880 - 55 x 46 cm - Pastel on paper
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880

 

No. 23 - Portrait de Mme C.
1880 - 100 × 66 cm - Oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Museum


No. 25 - Femme au théâtre. (Eau-forte, Premier état, dernier état.)
ca. 1880 - 19,6 x 17,8 cm - Soft ground etching and aquatint
Provenance: Moffett/Berson


No. 26 - Femme lisant. Eau-forte.
ca. 1880 - 18 x 11,1 cm - Soft ground etching and aquatint on paper
Provenance: Moffett/Berson


No. 27 - Portrait d’enfant.. Eau-forte. Premier et second état.
ca. 1880 - 21,9 x 14,2 cm - Soft ground etching and aquatint on paper
Provenance: Moffett/Berson


No. 28 - Enfant en chapeau. Eau-forte.
ca. 1880 - 21,5 x 18,7 cm - Soft ground etching on paper
• Provenance: Moffett/Berson


No. 29 - Au coin du feu. Eau-forte.
ca. 1880 - 20,5 x 16,4 cm - Soft ground etching and aquatint on paper
• Provenance: Moffett/Berson


No. 31 - Le Soir. Eau-forte.
ca. 1880 - 19,7 x 22 cm - Soft ground etching on paper
Provenance: Moffett/Berson




 
 

Edgar Degas

12 pictures in the catalogue




Nr 33 - Petites filles Spartiates provoquant des garçons (1860).
ca. 1860 - 110 x 155 cm - Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom >
• Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas
- in the catalogue, but not exhibited -

 

Nr 34 - Petitie Danseuse de quatorze ans (statuette en cire).
According to Moffet/Berson: listed in the catalogue but not exhibited (only in the following exhibition in 1881)


No. 35 - Portraits à la Bourse.
1878/79 - 100 x 81 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France >
Also shown at the 4th exhibition in 1879
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas



No. 38 - Étude de loge au theatre. Pastel.
1880 - 66 x 53 cm - Pastel on paper
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Christie's/Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 39 - Toilette. Pastel.
1880 - 65 x 50 cm - Pastel on paper
Private collection
Provenance: Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 40 - Examen de danse. Pastel.
1880 - 61 x 46 cm - Pastel and charcoal on paperr
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 41 - Danseuses.
1879 - 46 x 66 cm - Pastel and gouache on paper
Shelburne Museum, Shelbourne, USA
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 44 - Eaux-fortes. Essais et états de planches.
ca. 1880 - 26,9 x 23,6 cm - Drypoint, etching and aquatint
Provenance: Moffett/Berson


(außer Katalog) hc. - La leçon de danse.
ca. 1879 - 38 x 88 cm - Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/•Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas/Newspaper reports from 1880


(außer Katalog) hc. - Portrait du pauvre Duranty
1879 - 100 x 100 cm - Tempera, pastel and charcoal on linen
The Burell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland >
In memoriam to Edmond Duranty, who died shortly after the opening of the exhibition
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Catalogue Raisonné Edgar Degas




 
 

Paul Gauguin

8 pictures in the catalogue




No. 55 - Les Pommiers de l'Hermitage (Seine-et-Oise).
1878 - 88 x 115 cm - Oil on canvas
Private property
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Gauguin - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 31


No. 56 - Les Maraîchers de Vaugirard.
1879 - 66 x 100 cm - Oil on canvas
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Gauguin - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 36


No. 57 - Effet de Neige.
1879 - 60 x 81 cm - Oil on canvas
Szepmüveszeti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Gauguin - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 37/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 58 - Nature morte.
1880 - 54 x 65 cm - Oil on canvas
Art Institute Chicago, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 59 - La sente du père Dupin. (Seine-et-Oise.)
1879 - 31 x 47 cm - Oil on canvas
Private property
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Sotheby's/Gauguin - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 35/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 60 - Etude.
1879 - 42 x 49 cm - Oil on canvas
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Gauguin - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 37


No. 61 - Ferme Pontoise.
1879 - 15,5 x 25 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Gauguin - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 34


No. 62 - Buste marbre.
1877 - 34 x 18,5 x 26,5 cm - White marble
He was likely helped by a professional sculptor, Jules-Ernest Bouillot
The Courtauld Gallery, London, United Kingdom >

Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880




 
 

Armand Guillaumin

22 pictures in the catalogue



No. 66 - Port d'Austerlitz, effet du neige.
ca. 1870/80 - 65 x 81 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson /Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 67 - Quai de la Gare, effet de neige.
1873 - 51 x 61 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 72 - Portrait de M. G.
1878 - 60 x 50 cm - Oil on canvas
Museum Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Netherlands >
Provenance: Berson/Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880

 

No. 76 - Collégien.
ca. 1879 - 54 x 45 cm - Oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA >
Provenance: Berson

 

No. 82 - M. Martinez. Pastel.
ca 1880 - 45 x 35 cm - Pastel on paper
Private property
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 83 - Mᵐᵉ M., pastel.
1880 - 43 x 35,5 cm - Pastel on paper
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880




 
 

Berthe Morisot

15 pictures in the catalogue



No. 113 - Été.
1878 - 76 x 61 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Morisot - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 79/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 114 - Hiver.
1880 - 75 x 62 cm - Oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Morisot - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 86/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 115 - Femme à sa toilette.
ca. 1875 - 60 x 80 cm - Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, USA >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 116 - Le lac du bois de Boulogne.
1879 - 46 x 75 cm - Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Morisot - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 79/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 118 - L’avenue du Bois, effet de neige.
ca. 1880 - 33 x 41 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Morisot - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 85/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 119 - Au jardin.
1880 - 61 x 75 cm - Oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stokholm, Sweden >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 120 - Portrait.
1879 - 72 x 54 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Morisot - Catalogue Raisonné Wildenstein No. 81/Newspaper reports from 1880




 
 

Camille Pissarro

16 pictures in the catalogue



No. 128 - Le scieur de bois.
1879 - 89 x 116 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: • Moffet/Berson/Catalogue raissoné Wildenstein: Pissarro Vol II Nr 609 /Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 130 - Récolte des petits pois.
1880 - 81 x 65 cm - Oil on canvas
Museum Langmatt, Baden, Suisse
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Catalogue raissoné Wildenstein: Pissarro Vol II Nr 627/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 131 - Automne, chemin sous bois.
1876 - 81 x 65 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Catalogue raissoné Wildenstein: Pissarro Vol II Nr 575/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 133 - Récureuse de casserole.
1879 - 73 x 60 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Christie's/Catalogue raissoné Wildenstein: Pissarro Vol II Nr 590/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 136 - Gardeuse d’oies (Mayenne.) Peinture sur ciment.
1880 - 56 x 46 cm - Oil on plaster
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Catalogue raissoné Wildenstein: Pissarro Vol II Nr 628


No. 138 - Eventail.
ca. 1880 - 29,5 x 57 cm - Gouache and watercolour on silk
Private collection
Provenance: Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


Eaux-fortes:

No. 139 - Un cadré: Quatre états du paysage faisant partie
de le première livraison de la publication « le Jour et la Nuit. »

1879 - 21,8 x 26,8 cm - Aquatint and drypoint on Japanese ivory paper
(• 6 state prints, which four were shown is not known)
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 140 1 - Un cadre: Trois états de la foire de la Saint-Martin.
1879 - 11,9 x 16 cm - Etching
Provenance: Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880



No. 140 2 - Un état, pointe sèche. Marchande de marrons.
ca. 1878/80 - 20,8 x 16,4 cm - Etching
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 141 1 - Un cadre: Un état, paysage, route et côteaux près Laroche-Guyon.
1880 - 16,8 x 24,7 cm -Drypoint etching
Provenance: Moffet/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 141 2 - Un état. effet de pluie.
1879 - 15,9 x 21,3 cm - Etching
Provenance: Moffet/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 141 3 - Un état, vache et figure.
ca. 1879/80 - 11,2 x 11,7 cm - Etching
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 141 4 - Un état, point sèche, côteaux de l'Hermitage, Pontoise.
1880 - 11 x 12,3 cm - Etching
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 142 1 - Un cadre: Trois états, paysage, masure.
1879 - 16,7 x 17,2 cm - Etching and aquatint
(• 7 state prints, which were shown is not known)
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 142 2 - Deux états, paysage, arbres et coteaux.
1879 - 16,3 x 21,2 cm - Etching and aquatint
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


No. 143 - Un cadre: Un état, petit Bois à l'Hermitage, Pontoise.
1879 - 11,7 x 39,7 cm - Etching and aquatint
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880




 
 

Some other exhibitors:



Felix Bracquemond - No. 4 - Portrait de M. Ed. de Goncourt.
1880 - 55 x 38 cm - Charcoal on canvas
Département des Arts Graphiques du musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


Jean-Lous Forain - No. 47 - Dessin.
1878 - 24.8 × 32.7 cm - Watercolour and gouache on paper
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, USA >
Provenance: Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


Jean-François Raffaëlli - No. 148 - Salon d’attente d’un dentiste.
1878 - 13,5 x 22 cm - Oil on wood
Central Museum Utrecht, Netherlands >
Provenance: Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


Jean-Francois Raffaëlli - No. 150 - Maire et Conseiller municipal.
1880 - 54 x 73 cm - Oil on canvas
Private property
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880

 


Jean-Francois Raffaëlli - No. 163 - Type de chiffonnier
1879 - 21 x 8,9 cm - Oil on wood
Musée de Reims, France >
Provenance: Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880


Jean-Francois Raffaëlli - No. 166 1 - Quatre Eaux-Fortes pour le livre (Croquis naturalisme de J.K. Huysmans.
(1) Le Marchand de Marons.
ca. 1880 - 14,9 x 9,7 cm - etching
Provenance: Moffett/Berson

 

Jean-Francois Raffaëlli - No. 166 3 - Quatre Eaux-Fortes pour le livre (Croquis naturalisme de J.K. Huysmans.
(3) La Bièvre.
ca. 1880 - 14,1 x 9,7 cm - Etching
Provenance: Moffett/Berson


Jean-Francois Raffaëlli - No. 167 - Etats successifs d'une eau forte de mon (Chifffonnièr éreinté.)
ca. 1880 - 34 x 24 cm - Etching, drypoint and aquatint
Provenance: Moffett/Berson



Stanislas-Henri Rouart - No. 182 - Melun.
1880 - 46 x 65 cm - Oil on canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France >
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Museum/Newspaper reports from 1880



Frederico Zandomeneghi - No. 225 - Mère et fille.
1879 - 62 x 52 cm - Oil on canvas
Private collection
Provenance: Moffett/Berson/Newspaper reports from 1880

 
 

Attendance was sparser than in previous exhibitions. The unusual, the different kind of painting that was perceived at the time, had somewhat lost its appeal of contradiction. However, there was still little sign of the necessary recognition.
In addition, the Impressionists who had cancelled this exhibition presented themselves elsewhere. Manet and Renoir were represented in the official Salon that year, but Sisley had been rejected again and was heading for a financial low point in his life.
Cézanne had already retreated to Provence and was also confronted with family and financial difficulties.
When Monet, who was also able to exhibit a painting at the Salon, but also organised a solo exhibition in the gallery of "La Vie Moderne" (magazine, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris) in the summer (a few months after Manet in the same place), was asked whether he was no longer an Impressionist, he answered a reporter's question as follows: "Of course; I am still an Impressionist and will remain one, but I rarely see my male and female colleagues any more. The small community has now become a banal school that opens its doors to the next best colour blob..." (E. Tabourneux: Claude Monet, La Vie Moderne, 12 June 1880) He was referring to those whom Degas brought to the exhibitions as his friends, such as Raffaëlli or Zandomeneghi.

This drifting apart of the Impressionists is somewhat tragic. In their own group exhibitions, they were no longer the leaders and the ones in control.
They only saw each other very rarely in the group and no longer discussed the right path. The differences, both personal and on the subject, became too great.

Odilon Redon, who will later take part in the last, eighth group exhibition, wrote about the 5th exhibition: (Impressionism) "is a very legitimate way of painting when it deals with the depiction of mainly external objects in the open air. But I do not believe that what goes on in the brain of a person who thinks and listens to his inner voices... ...can gain much from a tendency that only observes the external. ...All in all, these meritorious painters are working in a field of art that is not particularly productive. Man is a thinking being! Whatever role light plays, he cannot switch it off. On the contrary, the future belongs to the subjective world!" (Odilon Redon: Réflexions sur une exposition des impressionistes - 10 April 1880)
Despite the backward-looking attitude of the official Salon, the avant-garde artists' view of art had already developed beyond the Impressionists.

 
 



 
 

Prologue
1st exhibition 1874
Excursus
2nd exhibition 1876
3rd exhibition 1877
4th exhibition 1879

 

5th exhibition 1880
6th exhibition 1881
7th exhibition 1882
Excursus
8th exhibition 1886
Resume

 
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