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    "localId": "31747",
    "label": "Aged Man Receiving Communion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1418"
}

{
    "id": "31747",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1418",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Aged Man Receiving Communion",
    "provenance": "Durand-Ruel, Paris, until 1834-35; Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1865, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1831",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1418",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.1418_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.1418_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.1418_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.4,
            "height": 21.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/8 x W: 8 9/16 in. (26.4 x 21.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"Alfred Johannot 1831\"\" in lower right; La communion par Alfred Johannot/acheté en décembre 1834 ou février 1835 chez Durand-Ruël/r. n[e] des petits champs no. 103. [?] 400 ff en argent et un dessin/de Gudin évalué 200 ff. total 600 ff. Il est probable que le sujet est/pris de Walter Scott pour les romans du quel les deux frères Johannot/ont beaucoup travaillé. in brown ink",
        "verso; 8 in graphite",
        "verso"
    ],
    "med": "watercolor and graphite underdrawing with white heighteing and gum heightening on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1861"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "441",
        "2069",
        "432"
    ]
}

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