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    "localId": "13620",
    "label": "The Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche",
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    "id": "13620",
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    "title": "The Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche",
    "description": "In the clouds above Mount Olympus, the gods celebrate the marriage of the winged God of Love to Psyche, who is seated to the right. Jupiter, in the center, holds a thunderbolt, and three winged Horae scatter flowers over the assembled guests.",
    "provenance": "Fountaine (?); Martin Hecksher, Stockholm, Vienna [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Christie's, London, May 4-6, 1898, lot 296; J. and S. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt am Main, May 4, 1898, by purchase; John Pierpont Morgan, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1555-1585 (Renaissance)",
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    "language": "en",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 20 1/2 x W: 15 3/8 in. (52 x 39 cm)"
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