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    "localId": "1013",
    "label": "Portrait of Barye with a Wax Model of \"\"Seated Lion\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.757"
}

{
    "id": "1013",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.757",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Barye with a Wax Model of \"\"Seated Lion\"\"",
    "description": "Walters commissioned this portrait through his fellow Barye enthusiast in Baltimore George Lucas. Barye's having died thirteen years earlier, Bonnat worked from a photograph of the sculptor taken by the respected French photographer Nadar that, along with a wax model of the \"Seated Lion,\" was provided by Lucas.",
    "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/37.757",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.757_Fnt_TR_T05III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.757_Fnt_TR_T05III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 129,
            "height": 93
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 50 13/16 x W: 36 5/8 in. (129 x 93 cm); Framed H: 64 1/4 x W: 49 7/8 x D: 4 1/8 in. (163.2 x 126.68 x 10.48 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "signature",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8045"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "34",
        "1956",
        "631",
        "484",
        "872"
    ]
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_37.757_Fnt_TR_T05III.jpg",
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