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{
    "localId": "39476",
    "label": "Still Life with Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.166"
}

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    "id": "39476",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.166",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Still Life with Flowers",
    "description": "Saint-Jean was a prominent still life painter during the second quarter of the 19th century. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, dedicating himself to flower painting early in his career and successfully exhibiting work at the Salon in Paris. Cut flowers or fruits dropped onto a forest floor occur often in Saint-Jean's work, giving them a slightly surreal quality to modern eyes. His paintings were often reproduced as textiles, and there was a strong link between artists from Lyon and the silk industry which flourished there.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [before 1884, possibly from Goupil in 1863] [1]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] See Diaries of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, page 161.",
    "date": "1852",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.166",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.166_ATFnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.166_ATFnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.166_ATFnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 36.7,
            "height": 45.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 7/16 x W: 17 15/16 in. (36.7 x 45.5 cm); Framed H: 25 x W: 28 1/2 x D: 5 in. (63.5 x 72.4 x 12.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In brown paint at lower left: Saint Jean; [Date] In brown at lower left: 1852 [Although the date now appears to read 1857",
        "discernible undler close scruitiny is a dash of brown paint that may complete the 2. Early catalougues consistently transcribe the date as 1852]"
    ],
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3723"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "190",
        "1993",
        "3300"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_37.166_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
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}