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{
    "localId": "21793",
    "label": "Village Fair",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.891"
}

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    "id": "21793",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.891",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Village Fair",
    "description": "Le Paon first exhibited at the Salon in 1779. He soon established himself as a painter of military scenes and became principal painter to the Prince of Conde, decorating the Bourbon Palace and the Ecole Militaire with battle scenes. This is a especially large watercolor, almost three feet wide.",
    "provenance": "Possibly Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 17, 1921, lot 99; Jacques Seligmann, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, November 16, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1775",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.891",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.891_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.891_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 44.5,
            "height": 99.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 17 1/2 x W: 39 in. (44.45 x 99.06 cm); Framed, H: 33 7/8 × W: 54 15/16 × D: 2 3/16 in. (86 × 139.5 × 5.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[On reverse",
        "type written label]: \"\"Paris 1738 - Paris 1785 / FOIRE SUR LA PLACE D'UN VILLAGE.- /  Très importante aquarelle rehaussée de / gouache",
        ".. [illegible] de figures / et animaux. / Haut. 44 cms. Larg. 1 m.\"\""
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6866"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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