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    "localId": "21057",
    "label": "The Sower",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.905"
}

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    "id": "21057",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.905",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Sower",
    "description": "Millet first gained widespread notoriety with his iconic image of a sower shown at the 1850/51 Paris Salon. In this pastel version, he integrates the sower into the landscape around Barbizon with a harrower, a flock of crows, and the tower of Chailly visible in the distance. Millet built up his composition with a network of black chalk lines before adding his pastels.",
    "provenance": "Montaignac, Paris; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, June 9, 1884 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 588.",
    "date": "ca. 1865",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.905",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.905_Fnt_TR_T99IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 43.5,
            "height": 53.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 17 1/8 × W: 21 1/16 in. (43.5 × 53.5 cm); Framed (with buildup), H: 28 3/4 × W: 32 5/16 × D: 2 15/16 in. (73 × 82 × 7.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "\"\"J.F. Millet\"\" in chalk in lower right",
    "med": "pastel and crayon or pastel on cream buff paper",
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    ],
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    ],
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    ]
}

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