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    "localId": "15925",
    "label": "Studies of a Snake's Skin",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2188"
}

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    "id": "15925",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2188",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Studies of a Snake's Skin",
    "description": "Barye has divided this sheet of studies into three sections: one for details of the snake's head and tail, another for outlining its body, and the third for laying out colors.",
    "provenance": "Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "1830s-1840s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2188",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.4,
            "height": 15.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 5/8 x W: 6 1/8 in. (24.4 x 15.6 cm)"
}

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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "3818"
    ]
}

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