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    "localId": "22454",
    "label": "Still Life with Melons",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1633"
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    "id": "22454",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1633",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Still Life with Melons",
    "description": "Couder trained at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and specialized in still lifes. Two of his paintings were purchased by Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, emperor of France. William T. Walters collected two still lifes in watercolor by the artist, who exhibited reguarly at the Salon in Paris.",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, Baltimore, 1865; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1865",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1633",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.3,
            "height": 18.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 9/16 x W: 7 5/16 in. (24.3 x 18.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] In watercolor at lower left: A. Couder; [Inscription] In graphite on verso: 67",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "3500"
    ]
}

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