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    "localId": "12713",
    "label": "Portrait of the Artist",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.74"
}

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    "id": "12713",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.74",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of the Artist",
    "description": "Bonnat, one of the fashionable portraitists in France during the late 19th century, dedicated this self-portrait to his friend \"Mr. Walters.\" Bonnat and the American collector were united by their enthusiasm for Antoine-Louis Barye's animal sculptures, and together they raised funds to erect a monument to the sculptor in Paris on the Île-Saint-Louis.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1885, by gift [from the artist]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1885",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.74",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.74_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 73.2,
            "height": 60.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 28 13/16 x W: 23 11/16 in. (73.2 x 60.2 cm); Framed H: 42 1/2 x W: 37 3/8 in. (107.95 x 94.93 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Upper left: Ln Bonnat à Son ami Mr. Walters;  [Date] Upper right: 1885",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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        "8045"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "484"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.74_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "mediaId": "480ccb05e1e098d3"
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