Michigan

... and then lend it to an art museum in the U.S.?

The painting's assigned guard was very friendly, simply wanted people to stand behind the tape on the floor and to make sure the flash on their camera is off. Standing with your toes at the tape, your nose was still within two feet of the painting, close enough to see the brush strokes.

The same tape-distance rule and no-flash rule applied to all the paintings and drawings in the exhibit, nothing extraordinary for The Novel Reader.