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    "localId": "4761",
    "label": "The Prodigal Son",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.848"
}

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    "id": "4761",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.848",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Prodigal Son",
    "description": "This painting of the prodigal son as a forlorn youth seated next to a man talking to a young woman is a replica of a work exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1841. The original version was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871.",
    "provenance": "E.-L. Jacibson, The Hague; Sale, Paris, 1876, no. 21; M. Leblanc-Barbedienne Sale, Paris, 1892, no. 27; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1850",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.848",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.848_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 33.6,
            "height": 26
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (33.6 x 26 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] At left: T. Couture/1850",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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