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    "localId": "19161",
    "label": "The Amateur",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.204"
}

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    "id": "19161",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.204",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Amateur",
    "description": "A gentleman in 18th-century dress leans against a high, rug-covered table while writing with a quill. A painting in a gilt frame and a framed drawing have been placed upright on the table resting against the wainscot of the wall. Behind him a page is holding a portfolio of drawings or prints.",
    "provenance": "Sold at Baron van Brienen sale, Brussels group, 1865 [1]. Purchased by Goupil et Cie, Paris, May 7 1870; purchased by Thomas McLean, London, August 12 1870. William Walters, Baltimore, before 1878 [mode of aquistion unknown]; by inheritence, Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest, Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] See notations in Goupil et Cie Stockbook 5, Stock no. 4962, Page 81, Row 2.",
    "date": "1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.204",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.204_Fnt_BW_T83.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.5,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 7/16 x W: 6 5/16 in. (21.5 x 16 cm); Framed H: 17 5/8 x W: 15 7/8 in. (44.77 x 40.32 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"1859 V. Chavet",
        "\"\" signed and dated lower right"
    ],
    "med": "oil on panel",
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        "3494"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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