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    "localId": "34903",
    "label": "The Hand of Antoine-Louis Barye",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.595"
}

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    "id": "34903",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.595",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Hand of Antoine-Louis Barye",
    "description": "George A. Lucas, William Walters' art agent in Paris, delivered a plaster cast of the sculptor Antoine Louis Barye's hand to the artist and Barye collector Léon Bonnat in April 1897. The following November, Lucas urged Bonnat to paint the image of the cast onto this partially cleaned palette. Lucas assembled a collection of more than seventy palettes, the majority of which are now at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The cast of the hand is preseved in the Musee Bonnat, Bayonne (no. 461).",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1897",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.595",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings",
        "palettes"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.595_Fnt_TR_T05IV.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.595_Fnt_TR_T05IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 35.6,
            "height": 27.3,
            "depth": 1.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "14 x 10 3/4 x 5/8 in. (35.56 x 27.31 x 1.59 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"Ln Bonnat",
        "\"\" signed lower left; \"\"1897",
        "\"\" dated lower right \"\"Main et Palette de Barye",
        "\"\" title upper leftReverse inscribed: \"\"avec laquelle le portrait du Cardinal Lavigerie a ete fait / L. Bonnat 1888\"\""
    ],
    "med": "oil on wood",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8045"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "484"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_37.595_Fnt_TR_T05IV.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cfd872ef332c5a02"
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