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    "localId": "10990",
    "label": "Breaking Flax",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.87"
}

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    "id": "10990",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.87",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Breaking Flax",
    "description": "Despite the modest size of this painting, Millet has imparted a sense of grandeur and monumentality to the woman. Using ancient methods, she pulverizes sheaves of flax to separate the fibers for making linen.      Although the artist appears to remain objective in his treatment of the toiling peasants, his picture reflects a concern for the plight of the rural working classes that emerged in French society following the Revolution of 1848, in which the monarchy of Louis-Philippe was overthrown.",
    "provenance": "Sensier, February 1851, by purchase [from the artist, see E. Moreau-Nelaton, 1:92];  Henry Wallis, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1878, by purchase [from Wallis]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1850-1851",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.87",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 45.8,
            "height": 37.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 18 1/16 x W: 14 5/8 in. (45.8 x 37.2 cm); Framed H: 30 1/2 x W: 27 1/4 x D: 5 1/4 in. (77.5 x 69.2 x 13.3 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] In dark brown at lower right: J.F. Millet",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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