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    "localId": "28031",
    "label": "Lion and Python",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.831"
}

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    "id": "28031",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.831",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lion and Python",
    "description": "In a desolate landscape, a lion dramatically confronts a snake. In a letter to a patron, Barye identified the lion as coming from Senegal. The sculptor, late in life, has returned to a subject that he had first explored in sculpture in 1832-33.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, December 23, 1863 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 167.",
    "date": "ca. 1863",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.831",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.831_Fnt_TR_T94III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.831_Fnt_TR_T94III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.831_Fnt_TR_T94III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27.3,
            "height": 37.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/4 x W: 14 5/8 in. (27.3 x 37.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Painted in brown watercolor on left bottom edge on recto: BARYE; [Number] Written in dark brown ink at center on verso: PJ-491/a.",
    "med": "watercolor on heavily textured, thick, cream wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "631",
        "872",
        "484",
        "3300",
        "3818"
    ]
}

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