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    "localId": "13684",
    "label": "Mademoiselle Marie-Nicole Vestier at Her Easel",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.5"
}

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    "id": "13684",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.5",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mademoiselle Marie-Nicole Vestier at Her Easel",
    "description": "The multitalented Vestier worked in a variety of media, including enamel, pastel, and oil. He was accepted into the Academy as a portrait painter in 1786, but he was best known as for his fine work as a miniaturist. The sitter is his eldest daughter, Marie-Nicole (1767-1846), who married the wealthy miniaturist François Dumont four years after this portrait miniature was made. She herself was a miniaturist and may have worked alongside her husband on some of the miniatures that are signed simply \"Dumont.\" Plain metal back with loop for hanging.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1785",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.5",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_38.5_Fnt_TR_T01II.jpg",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature and date] Upper right: Vestier 1785",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory; copper frame set with pearls",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3400"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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