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{
    "localId": "5312",
    "label": "Napoleon III",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.146"
}

{
    "id": "5312",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.146",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Napoleon III",
    "description": "Cabanel enjoyed a rapid rise to fame, winning a first-class medal and being appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1855. He also became a professor of painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1863. This painting replicates a once-lost official portrait commissioned in 1865 for the apartments of Empress Eugénie in the Tuileries Palace. Scoffing critics of Napoleon III's regime dismissed the original work as \"a portrait of a hotel manager.\" In 2009, the full-length portrait was rediscovered in storage at the chateau of Compiegne.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1887-1893 (?), by purchase [perhaps the Cabanel \"\"sketch\"\" purchased by G. A. Lucas at Chevalier's,  May 27-28, 1889]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1865",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.146",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "panel paintings",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.146_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.146_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.146_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 41,
            "height": 32
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 16 1/8 x W: 12 5/8 in. (41 x 32 cm); Framed H with buildup: 23 x W: 17 1/2 x D: 5 in. (58.26 x 44.45 x 12.7 cm); Framed H without buildup: 23 x W: 17 1/2 x D: 3 1/4 in. (58.42 x 44.45 x 8.26 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] In lower left in black cursive lettering: Ale Cabanel; [Signature] In lower right in brown block letters: Al. Cabanel",
    "med": "oil on red painted hardwood panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3616"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2141",
        "2159",
        "532",
        "2749",
        "3607"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.146_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
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