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    "localId": "30460",
    "label": "The Jungfrau, Switzerland",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.108"
}

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    "id": "30460",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.108",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Jungfrau, Switzerland",
    "description": "Calame established an international reputation with his dramatic views of Alpine scenery. Here, the snow-capped peak of the Jungfrau Mountain towers over the Lauterbrunnen Valley. He wrote of the site of this painting: a lost corner which I know is really wonderful . . . as if God has delighted in assembling in one corner of the earth the greatest marvels of creation.",
    "provenance": "Christophe Van Loo, Ghent, 1855 (mode of acquisition unknown); De Truenfels, Paris (date and mode of acquisition unknown); [1]; De Truenfels Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 9, 1867; purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, April 9, 1867 [2]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] early Walters publications erroneously state that the painting had belonged to Duc de Morny, 18-11-1865.[2] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 238.",
    "date": "1853-1855",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.108",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 85.3,
            "height": 105.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 33 9/16 x W: 41 9/16 in. (85.3 x 105.5 cm); Framed H: 47 1/2 x W: 55 1/2 x D: 6 in. (120.7 x 141 x 15.2 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Lower right: A. Calame; [Date] Lower right: 1855; [Inscription] On stretcher label",
        "signed by Calame stating that this was painted for Christopher van Loo"
    ],
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6449"
    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3300"
    ]
}

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