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    "localId": "14232",
    "label": "Empress Marie Louise",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.2"
}

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    "id": "14232",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Empress Marie Louise",
    "description": "A French inscription on the back of this miniature identifies the subject as \"Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, Empress of the French, and Queen of Italy, painted by L. Mansion, [i.e. André-Léon Larue] 2 October 1812.\"  The daughter of Francis I, Emperor of Austria, Marie-Louise (1791-1847) became Napoleon's second wife in 1810, after he divorced Joséphine de Beauharnais, who could not bear him children. After Napoleon's death in 1821, Marie Louise remarried twice. Mansion, a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painted miniatures in both Paris and London. The sitter wears a red velvet dress embroidered with flowers, edged with white lace, a pearl necklace and earrings, and a gold diadem set with pearls.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1812",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.2_Fnt_BW_2414.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.2_Fnt_BW_2414.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.2_Fnt_BW_2414.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.4,
            "height": 3.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/8 × W: 1 3/16 in. (5.4 × 3.05 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Mansion; [Date] 1812;  [Transcription] On back: Marie Louise",
        "Archiduchesse d'Autriche",
        "Imperatrice des Francais et Reine d'Italie",
        "peint par L. Mansion 2 octobre 1812;  [Translation] On back: Marie Louise",
        "Archduchess of Austria",
        "Empress of the French",
        "and Queen of Italy",
        "painted by L. Mansion",
        "2 October 1812"
    ],
    "med": "enamel on copper, gold frame",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3538"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_38.2_Fnt_BW_2414.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1fae333914894b8f"
}