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    "localId": "37896",
    "label": "Monks at Prayer in a Cloister",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1285"
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    "id": "37896",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Monks at Prayer in a Cloister",
    "description": "Biermann began his career as a porcelain decorator but eventually became one of the major landscape painters in Berlin.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1834",
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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] lower left: Biermann 34",
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