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{
    "localId": "13329",
    "label": "Elephants",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.826"
}

{
    "id": "13329",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.826",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Elephants",
    "description": "Three Asian elephants graze on a desolate plain at sunset; the warm tones of the sky are repeated in the landscape. Barye's close friend at Barbizon, the landscape painter Théodore Rousseau (1812-67), is thought to have owned this watercolor.",
    "provenance": "Théodore Rousseau, 1867, by purchase [from the artist (?)]; Vente Rousseau, April 27-May 2, 1868; William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1867",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.826",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.826_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.826_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.826_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.4,
            "height": 32.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 5/8 x W: 12 7/8 in. (24.4 x 32.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In reddish-brown watercolor on lower right edge: BARYE; [Number]: In graphite in center",
        "on verso: 3",
        "12."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, beige wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "631",
        "3818"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_37.826_Fnt_DD_AT24_53616 1_TMS.jpg",
    "mediaId": "84ec393f27541eae"
}