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    "localId": "35603",
    "label": "Self-Portrait",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.988 ()"
}

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    "id": "35603",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.988 ()",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Self-Portrait",
    "description": "This is one of two drawings described as self-portraits of Meissonier by Richard B. Gruelle in his book \"Notes Critical and Biographical: Collection of W.T. Walters,\" published in 1895. The second drawing is no longer part of the Walters collection, being last listed in the museum catalog of 1903, and absent from the 1909 catalog. The second drawing was also dated \"1853.\"",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, before 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] See Gruelle, \"\"Notes Critical and Biographical.\"\" 1895, cat. no. 250-151, p. 178.",
    "date": "1853",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.988 ()",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.5,
            "height": 21.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/16 x W: 8 9/16 in. (25.5 x 21.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"M / 1853\"\" in red chalk",
        "above center and to the right",
        "recto"
    ],
    "med": "red and black chalk on slightly textured, moderately thick, light orange wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4228"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069"
    ]
}

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