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    "localId": "31158",
    "label": "The Goose Girl",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.153"
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    "id": "31158",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.153",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Goose Girl",
    "description": "A young girl, identifiable as a peasant by her kerchief and her work-roughened hands and feet, extends her leg to dip a heel into the stream. In this painting, Millet refers to a long tradition in European art of depicting the idealized female nude in a natural setting, often in the guise of a mythological figure. The artist reworks this convention from a Realist perspective, emphasizing the goose girl's working-class status, adolescent body, and vulnerable pose. Millet developed this composition through numerous studies made over a period of seven years.",
    "provenance": "Ennemond Blanc [dealer], 1865, by purchase [from the artist]; Van Praet, Brussels [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; J. Saulnier, Bordeaux [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mme Vve. Saulnier Sale, Paris, 1886, no. 64 [illus. 29]; Sedelmeyer Sale, Paris, March 25, 1892, no. 10; Henri Heugel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henri Heugel Sale, Paris, May 26, 1905, no. 12; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1863",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.153",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 37.9,
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 15/16 × W:18 5/16 in. (37.94 × 46.51 cm)Framed H: 22 5/16 × W: 26 1/4 × D: 4 1/2 in. (56.67 × 66.68 × 11.43 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] At lower left: J. F. Millet",
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