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    "localId": "31179",
    "label": "Two Heads of a Lioness",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2037"
}

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    "id": "31179",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2037",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Two Heads of a Lioness",
    "description": "Barye's friend the Count of Rigny, a French admiral, donated two African lions to the Jardin des Plantes. One, a lioness, died in October 1828, and the other, a male lion, perished the following June. In this drawing, Barye has carefully recorded the structure of the lioness's jaw, both open and closed. In each case the bones as well as the outline of the lioness's skin, almost like and Xray.After the death of the second lion, the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) sent the following message to his friend Barye: \"The lion is dead. Come at once. It is time for us to act.\" Together, they observed and recorded the dissection of the animal.On the verso is another drawing of a lioness's head.",
    "provenance": "Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "1828",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2037",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.2,
            "height": 14
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.2 x 14 cm)"
}

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    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956"
    ]
}

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