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    "localId": "29890",
    "label": "Bassin de La Villette",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.892"
}

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    "id": "29890",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bassin de La Villette",
    "description": "The Bassin was constructed in the former village of La Villette between 1806 and 1809 to provide a harbor and a reservoir. It was formed from the Canal d'Ourcq connecting the Ourcq, a tributary of the Marne, with the Seine. Lépine produced a number of paintings of this waterway conveniently located east of Montmartre. Here he shows it on a sunny, though hazy and apparently humid day. Flanking the waterway are numerous barges and warehouses.A similar view, \"Le Bassin de La Villette,\" is illustrated in John Couper, \"Stanislas Lépine, sa vie, son oeuvre,\" Paris, 1969, fig. 31.",
    "provenance": "Durand-Ruel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Cyrus J. Lawrence Sale, American Art Association, New York, January 21-22, 1910, no. 61; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase [under alias Henry Chester]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.892",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34.8,
            "height": 61.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 11/16 x W: 24 1/8 in. (34.8 x 61.3 cm); Framed, H: 22 7/8 x W: 32 3/8 x D: 3 1/4 in. (58.1 x 82.23 x 8.26 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower left: S. Lépine",
    "med": "oil on fabric",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1955",
        "2749"
    ]
}

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