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    "localId": "21661",
    "label": "Portrait of a Lady of the Court as a Shepherdess",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2457"
}

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    "id": "21661",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2457",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Lady of the Court as a Shepherdess",
    "description": "The romantic fantasy of shepherds and shepherdesses living in the wilds of Arcadia in Greece was a favored theme in ancient poetry that was revived in Renaissance Italy and around 1600 in the Netherlands. In the 1620s, Honthorst and Cornelis van Poelenburch created a fashion in elite circles for portraying young people in this way.The sitter here may be Catherina Elizabeth von Hanau (1607-47) who married in 1628. In any case, she is a noblewoman from the court in The Hague; an engraving of this portrait is among those of the highest aristocracy reproduced in a publication of 1640, \"The True Portraits of Some of the Greatest Ladies of Christendom Disguised as Shepherdesses.\" Honthorst flourished in Rome and Utrecht as a painter of tavern and religious scenes. Turning to portraiture, he enjoyed the patronage of the court, with assistants preparing portraits for him to touch up.",
    "provenance": "Earls of Craven, Combe Abbey [1866 Catalog no. 341];  Cornelia, Countess of Craven;  Cornelia, Countess of Craven Sale, Sotheby and Co., London, November 27, 1968, no. 61;  Walters Art Museum, 1968, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1628 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2457",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 75.4,
            "height": 62
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "29 11/16 x 24 7/16 in. (75.4 x 62 cm)"
}

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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
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