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    "localId": "23387",
    "label": "Nude Male, Possibly Alexander the Great",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.762"
}

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    "id": "23387",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.762",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Nude Male, Possibly Alexander the Great",
    "description": "Nude except for boots and a cloak draped over the proper left shoulder and wrapped around the left arm, the man stands with his weight on the left foot, right leg free. His head is turned to his right, and the face is highly detailed. The way the curling hair is rendered is reminiscent of portraits of Alexander",
    "provenance": "Warneck Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Madame E. Warneck Collection Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, no.  166 [as from Tiber River, Rome]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BCE-1st century CE (Late Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)",
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    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)"
}

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    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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