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    "localId": "24467",
    "label": "The Musician",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.28"
}

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    "id": "24467",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.28",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Musician",
    "description": "A young musician is shown from slightly below the waist, posed with his violin and bow. The picture is thinly painted, allowing the wood ground to appear, particularly in the background. A couple of pictures entitled \"Petit joueur de violon\" of 1884-5 are mentioned in \"Catalogue des oeuvres de Dagnan-Bouveret (peintures),\" Paris, Institut de France, 1930.",
    "provenance": "Gustave Reichard's Art Room, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Mary J. Morgan Sale, New York, 1886, no. 81; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1886, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1884",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.28",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.28_Fnt_TR_T05II.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.2,
            "height": 19.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 15/16 x W: 7 11/16 in. (25.2 x 19.5 cm); Framed H: 17 15/16 × W: 15 15/16 × D: 3 15/16 in. (45.5 × 40.5 × 10 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Lower left: P.A.J. Dagnan-B; [Date] Lower left: 1884; [Label] On reverse",
        "label of Gustav Reichard's Art Room",
        "New York"
    ],
    "med": "oil on panel",
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        "5289"
    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
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        "2159",
        "2616",
        "3607"
    ]
}

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