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{
    "localId": "25975",
    "label": "A Vase of Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1779"
}

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    "id": "25975",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1779",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "A Vase of Flowers",
    "description": "The play of light over delicate blossoms, highlighting them against a dark background is characteristic of flower painting in Naples in the 1600s. Giacomo Recco was the father of Giuseppe Recco, who developed the theme in a more adventuresome way, as in Walters 37.1856.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 467, as Mario dei Fiori]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1625-1650 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1779",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.1779_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 40.5,
            "height": 31.5,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painted surface H: 15 15/16 x W: 12 3/8 x D: 5/16 in. (40.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] On back of panel: Pr. Maria Lanantia/221",
    "med": "oil on octagonal panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4618"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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