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{
    "localId": "39496",
    "label": "Urgèle the Fairy (La Fée Urgèle)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.972"
}

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    "id": "39496",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.972",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Urgèle the Fairy (La Fée Urgèle)",
    "description": "This statuary group was modeled after the design by Falconet. The scene is from the comic opera by Favart and Duni.  A seated woman leans away from the kiss of a man.  He is dressed in armour and is bending down reaching for her face with lips pursed.  There are upturned baskets of flowers at their feet.",
    "provenance": "Edmond F. Bonaventure [dealer], New York, by 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911; by bequest to Walters Art Musuem, 1931.",
    "date": "1767",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.972",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuary groups"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.972_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.972_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Mark] Impressed letter: B; [Label] On bottom: Fête at the Chateau",
        "Serves biscuit",
        "by L. Bachelier"
    ],
    "med": "porcelain biscuit",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229",
        "1916",
        "2994"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_48.972_3Qtr_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bf530f6166aeb9b7"
}