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    "localId": "20466",
    "label": "Elephant Asleep",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.812"
}

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    "id": "20466",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.812",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Elephant Asleep",
    "description": "An Asian elephant, perhaps the one that arrived at the Jardin des Plantes in 1843, lies asleep in a small clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Hints of red and yellow in the right background suggest that it is evening.",
    "provenance": "Émile Gavet, Paris; Antoine-François Marmontel; Vente Marmontel, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 25-26, 1883, lot 12;  William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1883, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850s-1860s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.812",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27.3,
            "height": 38.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/4 x W: 15 1/8 in. (27.3 x 38.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] At bottom right in black watercolor: BARYE; [Number] In graphite in lower left corner",
        "on verso: 3;  [Number] Scribbled over in graphite below \"\"3\"\": 6; [Label] On back of mounting board: Emile Gavet",
        "27 Quai Saint-Michel (and) Collection de M. Marmontel."
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": 20853,
    "med": "watercolor with gum heightening on rough, thick, cream wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "631",
        "906",
        "2186"
    ]
}

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