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    "localId": "28011",
    "label": "Venice, Sunset",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.26"
}

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    "id": "28011",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.26",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Venice, Sunset",
    "description": "From the artist's usual vantage point, the viewer looks westward into the sunset. On the right are the Ducal Palace and the Prison, and on the left in the middle ground is Santa Maria della Salute. Gondolas cross the Bacino di San Marco in the foreground.",
    "provenance": "Goldschmidt Sale, Paris, May 17-22, 1888, no. 53; purchased by M. Montaignac, Paris, May 1888; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, May 18, 1888 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, 1894;  by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 670.",
    "date": "19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.26",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 99.5,
            "height": 136.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 39 3/16 x W: 53 3/4 in. (99.5 x 136.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] In dark brown at lower right: Ziem",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1943"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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