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    "localId": "25287",
    "label": "Sunset on the Coast at Villerville",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.17"
}

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    "id": "25287",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.17",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sunset on the Coast at Villerville",
    "description": "Daubigny first visited Villerville in 1854 and returned each year thereafter. He built a lean-to hut for shelter and is known to have painted at least one of his large-scale paintings of the coast entirely on the spot. He wrote:          I look at the sea, and it is so beautiful that I have no desire to go anywhere else. . . . I          have seen sunsets that make those of [the French Baroque painter] Claude Lorrain           seem very dull. In this sunset view, the range of colors in the sky, from pinks to lilacs to yellows, highlights Daubigny's ability as a colorist.It is possible that this painting was exhibited at the Salon in 1855 with the title \"Mare au bor de la mer\" (\"Pond by the Dea\"). The large size of this painting would be suited to that venue, supporting this possibility.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by William T. Walters (mode of acquisition unknown); inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1855, with later retouching by the artist",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.17",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.17_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.17_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 93.4,
            "height": 150.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 36 3/4 x W: 59 1/4 in. (93.4 x 150.5 cm); Framed H: 55 3/4 × W: 78 1/2 × D: 6 1/4 in. (141.61 × 199.39 × 15.88 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right: Daubigny; [Date] Lower right: 1855",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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        "6433"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
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        "631",
        "2749",
        "3300",
        "3818"
    ]
}

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