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    "localId": "25620",
    "label": "Portrait of a Boy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.326"
}

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    "id": "25620",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.326",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Boy",
    "description": "While traditionally attributed to the famed rococo painter Fragonard, this miniature may be by his wife, Marie-Anne Fragonard, née Gérard. She never signed her work, and scholars now suspect that many miniatures, such as this one, once ascribed to her more famous husband are actually her work. The relative clumsiness of this miniature compared to the painterly verve and charm associated with Jean-Honoré Fragonard's graceful art makes the attribution to J.-H. Fragonard unlikely.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Monsieur de Coincy; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906; given to A. J. Fink, Baltimore; by bequest to A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.",
    "date": "1745-1823",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.326",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.326_Fnt_BW_113.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.326_Fnt_BW_113.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/8 in. (6.03 cm); H with frame: 3 5/8 in. (9.21 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "watercolor on ivory; gold and silver frame set with diamonds",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5564"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3225"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_38.326_Fnt_BW_113.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6c12d980429a20ae"
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