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{
    "localId": "29580",
    "label": "View of the Church of Boccadasse in Genoa and the promontory of Portofino",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.876"
}

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    "id": "29580",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.876",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "View of the Church of Boccadasse in Genoa and the promontory of Portofino",
    "description": "The viewer looks across a stretch of water from a rocky shoreline. At the left, on a promontory, is a cluster of buildings.The rather crude handling of the pigments has little in common with the work of Courbet. Robert Fernier, president of the Amis de Courbet, concluded in a letter to the museum of 1972, that this work might have been painted by the his follower from Ticino, Chérubino Pata (1827-1899), who is known to have been responsible for a number of forgeries dating from Courbet's last years in Switzerland.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "before 1881",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.876",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 37.8,
            "height": 54.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 7/8 x W: 21 3/8 in. (37.8 x 54.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] signed at lower right: G. Courbet",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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