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    "localId": "17985",
    "label": "Lion at Rest",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.816"
}

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    "id": "17985",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.816",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lion at Rest",
    "description": "Barye posed this majestic reclining lion against a background consisting of rocks and a gnarled oak tree, features familiar to him in the Forest of Fontainebleau.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850s-1860s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.816",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.816_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.1,
            "height": 29.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/2 x W: 11 3/4 in. (24.1 x 29.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In red watercolor at lower right corner",
        "on recto: BARYE; [Mark] In graphite in center",
        "on verso: o."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on moderately textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "631",
        "872"
    ]
}

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