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{
    "localId": "2261",
    "label": "Portrait of a Man",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.26"
}

{
    "id": "2261",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.26",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Man",
    "description": "The inscription on the back of this miniature attributes this work to Jean-Urbain Guérin who, alongside Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Jacques Augustin, was one of the most highly regarded miniaturists of his day.",
    "provenance": "William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1790",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.26",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.26_Fnt_BW_2437.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.26_Fnt_BW_2437.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.26_Fnt_BW_2437.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] At right: F.Z.; [Inscription] Engraved on back: Jean Guerin 1760-1836",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7051"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_38.26_Fnt_BW_2437.jpg",
    "mediaId": "30539624a398402c"
}