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{
    "localId": "15000",
    "label": "Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, with Angels and Two Donors",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.443"
}

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    "id": "15000",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.443",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Madonna Nursing the Christ Child, with Angels and Two Donors",
    "description": "The motif of the Christ Child playing with his foot while he nurses is quite charming. An attribution to Niccolo da Voltri has also been suggested.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown] [through Berenson]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1410 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.443",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.443_DetA_NG_infrared.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.443_DetA_NG_infrared.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.443_DetA_NG_infrared.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 116.5,
            "height": 77.4,
            "depth": 1.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H with modern frame in which the painting is encased: 45 7/8 x W: 30 1/2 x Approx. D: 7/16 in. (116.5 x 77.4 x 1.1 cm); Painted surface H including pastiglia ornament of the original frame: 40 x W: 23 11/16 in. (101.6 x 60.2 cm); Estimated H of original panel: 42 1/8 x W: 24 3/16 in. (107 x 61.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] At the bottom between the two donors: HO[C] OP[V]S. FECIT FI[ERI]...RB.T...R...; [Translation] This work was commissioned...; [Transcription] In the Virgin's halo: AVE GRATIA PLENA.",
    "med": "tempera and gold on wood panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4003"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_37.443_DetA_NG_infrared.jpg",
    "mediaId": "622a8a8b8790ed67"
}