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    "localId": "2623",
    "label": "Portrait of a Noblewoman",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.410"
}

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    "id": "2623",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.410",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Noblewoman",
    "description": "Turning her gaze towards the spectator with one hand resting on her hip, this noblewoman has a stately, matronly appearance that is intended to express personal discipline and dignity. Her lavish costume-with a scarf tied to her hair, a brocade dress set with pearls and a feather, and jeweled pendants-communicates her social status, as does the column, suggestive of a palatial setting, a compositional device developed during the 16th century to communicate aristocratic status.For more information on this portrait, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 421, pp. 531-532.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 778, as Portrait of an Actress, by Largillière]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1750 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.410",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 95.7,
            "height": 72.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painted surface H: 37 11/16 x W: 28 7/16 in. (95.7 x 72.2 cm)"
}

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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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