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    "localId": "24477",
    "label": "Sketch of Costume of General Bonaparte",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2238"
}

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    "id": "24477",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2238",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sketch of Costume of General Bonaparte",
    "description": "Barye drew this study in preparation for modeling General Bonaparte. It differs from the final bronze in that it shows Napoleon wearing a bicorn hat decorated with plumes. Napoleon held the rank of general from 1793 to 1799.",
    "provenance": "Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1862",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2238",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "sketches",
        "drawings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.7,
            "height": 10
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 3/16 x 3 15/16 in. (15.7 x 10 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Stamp] Collection/ Vildieu-Barye.",
    "med": "graphite on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.2238_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c10268433f08fdb5"
}