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    "localId": "39695",
    "label": "The Lorelei",
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    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.310"
}

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    "id": "39695",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Lorelei",
    "description": "During an 1886-89 stay in Paris, this Boston painter experimented with working in oils outdoors. He gradually abandoned the dark-toned palette of the Barbizon masters for the brighter colors of the French Impressionists. Hassam named this study of a nude model, painted as if posed on a cliff, after the siren in the German poet Heinrich Heine's \"Die Lorelei\" (1827). In the poem, the Lorelei, a water spirit dwelling in the treacherous rocks along the Rhine River, lures ships to their destruction with her tantalizing singing:Night falls as I linger, dreaming,  And calmly flows the Rhine;The Peaks of the mountains gleaming  In the golden sunset shine.A wondrous lovely maiden  Sits high in glory there;Her robe with gems is laden,  And she combs out her golden hair.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, possibly 1905 [1]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] this painting was possibly acquired at the National Academy of Design exhibition of 1905, where it won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize",
    "date": "1904",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.310",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 63.8,
            "height": 53.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 25 1/8 x W: 21 1/16 in. (63.8 x 53.5 cm); Framed H: 38 × W: 32 11/16 × D: 3 3/8 in. (96.5 × 83 × 8.5 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right: Childe Hassam; [Date] Lower right: 1904",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    ],
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    ],
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    ]
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