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    "localId": "18479",
    "label": "Interior with Old Woman and Boy",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
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    "title": "Interior with Old Woman and Boy",
    "description": "Rather than recording the quaint, but impoverished circumstances of the Écouen villagers, Soyer records a scene of happy domesticity. A young child gazes inquisitively at his grandmother, who has fallen asleep with her glasses in her lap. Beside her is a cat lapping its food. On the floor are potential threats to this tranquil scene-a toy drum and drumsticks. A vase of flowers on the mantel adds a cheerful note to the rustically, but adequately furnished room.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, June 28, 1862, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1862",
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.5,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "7 11/16 x 5 7/8 in. (19.5 x 14.9 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"Paul Soyer 1862\"\" in ink",
        "lower left"
    ],
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        "187",
        "2069",
        "190"
    ]
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