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{
    "localId": "1679",
    "label": "Four Sketches of a Lion Attacking a Horseman",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2045"
}

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    "id": "1679",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2045",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Four Sketches of a Lion Attacking a Horseman",
    "description": "Barye has lightly sketched, mostly in outline, several variations on the theme of a lion attacking a man mounted on a rearing horse. In two of the scenes, a second lion crouches over a fallen man. These studies have not been related to any of Barye's known compositions.",
    "provenance": "Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2045",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "sketches",
        "drawings",
        "leaf"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.2045_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 33.5,
            "height": 29.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 3/16 x W: 11 3/4 in. (33.5 x 29.8 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "graphite on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_37.2045_Fnt_BW.jpg",
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}