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    "localId": "36619",
    "label": "Frontispiece for Bonvin Album",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1501"
}

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    "id": "36619",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1501",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Frontispiece for Bonvin Album",
    "description": "In 1866 William T. Walters commissioned a deluxe album from French art dealer Georges Petit (1856–1920) to house his growing collection of watercolors by the French watercolorist Léon Bonvin (1834-1866). This album tells us a great deal about how Walters viewed this artist. Placing the watercolors in an album helped preserve them and enhanced the sense of their preciousness, while encouraging intimate, close-up viewing of the individual works. For his album, Walters commissioned a decorative frontispiece and tailpiece from the flower painter Jean-Marie Reignier; these were completed by early 1867. This is Reignier's frontispiece which reads \"Near Paris by Léon Bonvin.\"",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters,  Baltimore, 1867, by commission [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1867",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1501",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1501_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1501_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30.3,
            "height": 23.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 15/16 x W: 9 1/8 in. (30.3 x 23.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In watercolor",
        "lower right: Reignier 1867"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": 37395,
    "med": "watercolor on smooth, moderately thick, blue-coated, cream wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4002"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069",
        "3148"
    ]
}

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