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    "localId": "30960",
    "label": "My Sister Is Not In",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.86"
}

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    "id": "30960",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.86",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "My Sister Is Not In",
    "description": "Alma-Tadema was born in Friesland, the Netherlands, but was trained in Belgium. After the death of his first wife in 1870, he moved to London where he developed a reputation for his seemingly accurate reconstructions of genre scenes set in ancient Rome. Here, a Roman maiden closes a curtain in an unconvincing attempt to conceal her sister from a suitor. Alma-Tadema's wealthy British patrons could readily relate to the individuals he portrays: members of the upper class in an era of affluence.",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by Messrs Pilgeram and L.H. Lefevre, London, 1879; purchased by Messrs Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1879; purchased by Samuel P. Avery, May 1880; purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1884 [S. P. Avery as dealer]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1879",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.86",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "panel paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 40.6,
            "height": 31.1,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 16 × W: 12 1/4 × D: 1/4 in. (40.64 × 31.12 × 0.64 cm); Framed H: 28 7/8 × W: 25 1/2 × D: 5 1/2 in. (73.34 × 64.77 × 13.97 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On door jamb at lower left: L Alma Tadema op. CCX",
    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4782"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "813",
        "2326",
        "2553",
        "3300",
        "3441"
    ]
}

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