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{
    "localId": "36320",
    "label": "Tracing of Five Bulls with Annotations",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2365"
}

{
    "id": "36320",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2365",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tracing of Five Bulls with Annotations",
    "description": "This drawing is evidence of Bonheur’s studio practice. Taught art by her father, like four of her five siblings, Bonheur was often assisted by her sister and two of her brothers, as well as her partner, Nathalie Micas. Executed on thin paper, this drawing is in fact a tracing, which Bonheur has annotated with red and blue lines and instructions for how the composition should be refined in versions to follow. Micas would transfer approved compositions onto canvas for Bonheur, or her siblings to finish.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd half 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2365",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.2365_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.2365_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.2365_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27.1,
            "height": 38.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "10 11/16 x 15 3/16 in. (27.1 x 38.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "Various notation in French by the artist:Alonger le ? le train bleu indique et le rouge est celui non corrigé",
        "avoir a se servir d’une épreuve nouvelle pour comparé et réparer la faute[Lengthen the ? the blue line indicates and the red is the one not fixed/retouched",
        "use a new proof/sketch/drawing to compare and fix the mistake]Pour tout le rest comparer l’épreuve que j’ai retouché avec une non retouché[For everything else compare the proof/sketch/drawing that I retouched with the one not retouched]Le train rouge [celui?] de l’épreuveLe blue celui corrigé soit à dire qu’il faut ressortir comme [j’ai?] indiqué aux [retouches?] sur l’épreuve en comparent avec une épreuve qui n’est pas retoucher [The red line is the one from the proof/sketch/drawingThe blue is the one fixed",
        "to say that one must ? like I’ve indicated in the fixes/retouching on the proof/sketch/drawing by comparing with a proof/sketch/drawing that is not retouched]Signifier le terrain comme j’ai indiqué dans l’épreuve[Signify/render the ground like I’ve indicated in the proof/sketch/drawing]"
    ],
    "med": "graphite and watercolor on beige, thin, transparent wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7564",
        "35404"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069",
        "432",
        "3191",
        "3818"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/ARG_37.2365_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "88f9a20343628d96"
}