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    "localId": "26571",
    "label": "Cupid and Psyche",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.41"
}

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    "id": "26571",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cupid and Psyche",
    "description": "Devoured by the desire to discover the identity of her unseen lover, Psyche holds a lamp over Cupid as he sleeps. Cupid, awakened by a drop of oil from the lamp, flees from his mistress, whose faith had proved weaker than her curiosity.",
    "provenance": "Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, New York. Acquired by Henri Daguerre, Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "mid 16th century (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.41",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.5,
            "height": 22.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/8 x W: 8 7/8 in. (31.5 x 22.5 cm)"
}

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    ],
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