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    "localId": "31807",
    "label": "Arabs in Egypt, Sunrise",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.136"
}

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    "id": "31807",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.136",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Arabs in Egypt, Sunrise",
    "description": "When the German artist Schreyer moved to Paris in 1862, critics compared his paintings of the Near East to the works of the orientalists Eugène Delacroix, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Eugène Fromentin. In 1859, Schreyer traveled extensively in Egypt and Syria, learning Arabic and immersing himself in Near Eastern culture.Seen is a courtyard of an inn at dawn.  The rising sun bathes the top walls with warm light, leaving the foreground in shadow; horses are being prepared for the day.  One, already packed, is tended by an Arab, three others are saddled, and another, a handsome white steed, drinking water from a well, is watched by a young boy.  Strewn across the ground at the right are various supplies.",
    "provenance": "Henry Probasco, Cincinnati [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Probasco Sale, American Art Association, New York, April 18, 1887, no. 69; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1887, by purchase [S. P. Avery as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1867",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.136",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 42.5,
            "height": 74.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 16 3/4 x W: 29 5/16 in. (42.5 x 74.5 cm); Framed H: 29 1/2 x W: 42 x D: 4 1/2 in. (74.9 x 106.7 x 11.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] In brown on lower left: Ad. Schreyer; [Date] In brown on lower left: 1867; [Inscription] In brown on lower left: Paris",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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        "5480"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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