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    "localId": "6437",
    "label": "Portrait of George Aloysius Lucas",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.759"
}

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    "id": "6437",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.759",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of George Aloysius Lucas",
    "description": "George A. Lucas (1824-1909) of Baltimore sailed to Europe in 1857, never to return to America. During his long residence in Paris, he supplemented his private income by representing the interests of a number of American collectors, including William T. Walters of Baltimore and Samuel P. Avery of New York. In a preface to a publication of 1885, Walters wrote of Lucas, \"The debt I owe him for his good judgment, mature experience and cheerful co-operation in nearly all I have accomplished as amateur and collector, I find only less than the value I place upon his sterling truth, and upon his worth as a man and a friend.\"",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, January 10, 1885 [1] [2]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Diary of George A. Lucas 18 November 1885.[2] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 601.",
    "date": "1885",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.759",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 129,
            "height": 92.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 50 13/16 x W: 36 7/16 in. (129 x 92.5 cm); Framed: H: 64 1/2 x W: 49 3/4 x D: 4 1/2 in. (163.8 x 126.4 x 11.4 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Signed and dated lower left: Ln Bonnat / 1885",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "484",
        "2655",
        "170"
    ]
}

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