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    "localId": "17030",
    "label": "The Death of Caesar",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.884"
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Death of Caesar",
    "description": "Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. Characteristically, Gérôme has depicted not the incident itself, but its immediate aftermath. The illusion of reality that Gérôme imparted to his paintings with his smooth, polished technique led one critic to comment, \"If photography had existed in Caesar's day, one could believe that the picture was painted from a photograph taken on the spot at the very moment of the catastrophe.\"",
    "provenance": "M. J. Allard;  John Taylor Johnston [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  John Taylor Johnston Sale, New York, 1876, no. 188;  John Jacob Astor [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Boussod Veladon et Cie [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  James B. Haggin et al. Sale, New York, April 5, 1917, no. 148;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1859-1867",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.884",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "width": 85.5,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 33 11/16 x W: 57 5/16 in. (85.5 x 145.5 cm); Framed H: 51 1/2 x W: 74 3/8 x D: 5 1/2 in. (130.81 x 188.91 x 13.97 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower left: J. L. Gerome;  [Date] Lower left: MDCCCLIX [last two digits abraded]",
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