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    "localId": "22565",
    "label": "Winter Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.363"
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    "id": "22565",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Winter Landscape",
    "description": "The cycle of the seasons fascinated 17th-century Europeans, but the shifts in the tilt of the earth that causes them were not understood. Winter was especially hard then; Europe was in the middle of a little ice age and it was much colder than today. The Southern Netherlands was also in the midst of a war, and ill-paid soldiers terrorized the peasants.Here, the Antwerp landscapist Joos de Momper uses subdued color and tonal unity to suggest the bleakness of a late winter afternoon, complemented by an intricate, stark pattern of barren branches against the sky. Landscape was a popular subject in antwerp in these years. De Momper's works are characterized by this moody, tonal quality rather than by attention to lush vegetation.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1620-1629 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.363",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 44.7,
            "height": 66
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 17 5/8 x W: 26 in. (44.7 x 66 cm)"
}

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