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{
    "localId": "3410",
    "label": "Tiger at Rest",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.834"
}

{
    "id": "3410",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.834",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tiger at Rest",
    "description": "A Bengal tiger gazes directly at the viewer. Working in a technique popularized by British watercolorists in the early 19th century, Barye used thin washes of color to capture the atmospheric effects in the cloudy sky and to suggest the indistinct forms in the landscape.",
    "provenance": "Barye Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 7-12, 1876, lot 164; Mme Veuve Barye, Paris; William T. Walters, Baltimore, January 17, 1885, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1830s-1840s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.834",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.834_Fnt_TR_C82IA.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.834_Fnt_TR_C82IA.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.834_Fnt_TR_C82IA.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 36.5,
            "height": 54.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 3/8 x W: 21 3/8 in. (36.5 x 54.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Painted in red watercolor at lower left corner: BARYE; [Number] Written in graphite in center on verso: no. 60; [Number] Crossed out in graphite at right of center on verso: 60; [Notations] Two sets of mathematical calculations",
        "possibly prices",
        "in graphite in upper right quadrant on verso;  [Transcription] Stamped from red wax seal on back of mount: Vente Barye."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor with gum heightening on rough, thick, cream wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "637",
        "190",
        "631",
        "872",
        "1993"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_37.834_Fnt_TR_C82IA.jpg",
    "mediaId": "a104ec66524a601e"
}