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    "localId": "40888",
    "label": "Evening Prayer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.47"
}

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    "id": "40888",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.47",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Evening Prayer",
    "description": "A young woman, wearing a white blouse with her shoulders bared and a long black skirt, kneels in prayer beside her bed. The furnishings of this contemporary bourgeois interior include a colorful oriental rug, a turned mahogany candlestand carrying a brass double candleholder, and an upholstered Louis XV-style armchair. Partially concealed by the pink silk bed curtains is a framed crucifix.Single-figured boudoir scenes, such as this work, were the mainstay of Plassan's oeuvre. A very similar composition, with the same figure and candlestand, entitled \"La Prière,\" was sold at Sotheby's in London, July 21, 1976, no. 45, dated 1862.",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, December 5, 1863 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 166.",
    "date": "1863-1864",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.47",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "panel paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 22
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 5/8 x W: 8 11/16 in. (27 x 22 cm); Framed H: 20 1/16 × W: 17 15/16 × D: 2 3/4 in. (51 × 45.6 × 7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right in block letters: PLASSAN; [Transcription] Impressed on reverse of panel: TACHET / BREVETTE / A PARIS",
    "med": "oil on panel (three-ply laminated wood)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3820"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3300"
    ]
}

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