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    "localId": "16877",
    "label": "Running Jaguar",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.820"
}

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    "id": "16877",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.820",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Running Jaguar",
    "description": "A jaguar, the only member of the panther family native to the Americas, was added to the collection of the Jardin des Plantes in January 1831. It survived only until October 1835. Barye portrays the wild cat in a mountainous landscape.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1830-1840",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.820",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.2,
            "height": 28.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/8 x W: 11 5/16 in. (23.2 x 28.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In reddish brown watercolor in lower right corner",
        "on recto: BARYE; [Number] In graphite above center and to left",
        "on verso: 29_3 19_6; [Number]  In graphite below center and to right",
        "on verso: no. 32."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on slightly textured, medium thickness, cream wove paper",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "872",
        "906",
        "3191"
    ]
}

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