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    "localId": "8360",
    "label": "Tiger Rolling",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.818"
}

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    "id": "8360",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.818",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tiger Rolling",
    "description": "In this amusing scene, the tiger rolls on the ground, rubbing its back in a manner similar to that of domestic cats. The old oak tree resembles those that Barye sketched in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Barye repeated this tiger several times in his watercolors, altering the backgrounds.",
    "provenance": "Carmentier;  William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent];  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850-1869",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.818",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.8,
            "height": 29.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 3/8 x W: 11 3/4 in. (23.8 x 29.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Painted in lower right in red watercolor: BARYE;  [Transcription] Inscribed in graphite in center on verso: o bis",
    "med": "watercolor on moderately textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "631",
        "872",
        "366"
    ]
}

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