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    "localId": "31440",
    "label": "The Amateurs",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1228"
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    "id": "31440",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1228",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Amateurs",
    "description": "In the 1860s the great caricaturist Daumier produced a number of drawings exploring the reactions of viewers to works of art. In this example, one of several set in a studio, the haughty, aloof artist awaits the presumably enthusiastic responses of his visitors.",
    "provenance": "P. Aubry, Paris, March 20, 1877, by purchase [from the artist];  Mme Aubry [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1895 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Cyrus J. Lawrence (1886-1910), New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Cyrus J. Lawrence Sale, American Art Association, New York, January 21-22, 1910, lot 34;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase [using the alias Henry Chester];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1865-1868",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1228",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.4,
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/4 x W: 12 1/8 in. (32.4 x 30.8 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right in brown ink: h. Daumier",
    "med": "black crayon with watercolor and gouache heightened with white gouache on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper",
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    ],
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    ],
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