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    "localId": "19454",
    "label": "Portrait of Francois Joseph Talma",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1554"
}

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    "id": "19454",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1554",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Francois Joseph Talma",
    "description": "This is a portrait of the French tragic actor François Joseph Talma (1763–1826), friend of the painter Jacques-Louis David and Napoleon Bonaparte. It was originally housed in one of Williams T. Walters' many albums of drawings. The portrait was executed by Peale on his second visit to Paris in 1809-10. Four years later Peale opened a museum in Baltimore.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by inheritance.",
    "date": "1810",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1554",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1554_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1554_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.2,
            "height": 13.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 15/16 × W: 5 1/2 in. (20.2 × 13.9 cm); Mat H: 19 1/4 × W: 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Bottom in pencil: Original sketch of Talma / Paris 1810; [Signature] Right edge in ink: Rembrandt Peale",
    "med": "pencil on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3323"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2703",
        "3069",
        "3271"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_37.1554_Fnt_BW_C41.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d81e72baa421038c"
}