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    "localId": "39650",
    "label": "Tiger Asleep",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.813"
}

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    "id": "39650",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.813",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tiger Asleep",
    "description": "In this dark, stormy scene, the tiger has coiled himself up as though asleep. Barye altered the composition when applying the pigments, and the outlines of the original placement of the tiger have become visible through the paint surface.  Sleeping tigers in simiar poses occur in Barye's watercolors in the collection of Georges Wildenstein, New York.",
    "provenance": "Mme Barye; Vente Barye, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 5-6, 1876, no. 67; William T. Walters, Baltimore, January 17, 1885, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850s-1860s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.813",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "panel paintings",
        "oil paintings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_37.813_Fnt_TR_T05II.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.1,
            "height": 41.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 5/8 x W: 16 1/2 in. (32.1 x 41.9 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Signed in red at lower right: BARYE; [Seal] Red wax seal on reverse: VENTE BARYE; [Stamp] Panel stamped on back: \"\"Luniot-Ganne",
        "Tableaux de Chêne....\"\""
    ],
    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "631",
        "300",
        "872"
    ]
}

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