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    "localId": "597",
    "label": "Portrait of Napoleon III",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.95"
}

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    "id": "597",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.95",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Napoleon III",
    "description": "Yvon served as the principal battle-painter of France's Second Empire (1852-70), executing a number of monumental canvases for the palace at Versailles. He became an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1867, and the next year painted Napoleon III's portrait. He was also a leading teacher of the école des Beaux-Arts from 1863-83.  The French emperor is shown in his prime, two years before the defeat of his forces in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).",
    "provenance": "S. P. Avery [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase [according to inscription by Henry Walters in 1884 catalogue]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1868",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.95",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.95_Fnt_BW_C80.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.95_Fnt_BW_C80.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 55.7,
            "height": 46.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 21 15/16 x W: 18 3/8 in. (55.7 x 46.7 cm); Framed H: 31 x W: 27 5/8 in. (78.74 x 70.17 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] At right just above the epaulet: AD. YVON; [Date] At right just above the epaulet: 1868; [Number] Painted in the spandrels: 96; [Number] On frame on old paper sticker: 761",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2161"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2940",
        "3300"
    ]
}

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