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    "localId": "19035",
    "label": "Pandora",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.99"
}

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    "id": "19035",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.99",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pandora",
    "description": "Cabanel, a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, specialized in portraits of \"High Society.\" Here, he depicts the Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson as Pandora, the woman in Greek mythology who opened a forbidden box, releasing all the troubles that afflict humanity.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, October 26, 1873 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 384.",
    "date": "1873",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.99",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 70.2,
            "height": 49.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 27 5/8 x W: 19 3/8 in. (70.2 x 49.2 cm); Framed H with build up: 42 3/8 x W: 33 3/4 x D: 5 in. (107.63 x 85.73 x 12.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] At upper right in yellow letters: ALEX. CABANEL; [Date] Upper right in yellow letters: 1873",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2141",
        "484"
    ]
}

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