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    "localId": "24490",
    "label": "Allegorical Figure of a Woman Representing \"\"Painting\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.5"
}

{
    "id": "24490",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.5",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Allegorical Figure of a Woman Representing \"\"Painting\"\"",
    "description": "This tapestry, which depicts a woman at an easel personifying Painting, belonged to Madame de Pompadour. A subtle comment on exchange between media, the work represents one medium (painting) in a different medium (tapestry). When the tapestry was exhibited in 1765, critics marveled at how closely it imitated the painting it reproduced. The philosopher Denis Diderot wrote: “My word, if anyone standing four feet away is able to distinguish between the painting and the tapestry, I would give him both of them.”",
    "provenance": "Commissioned (?) by Madame de Pompadour; inherited by the Marquis de Marigny, 1764; sale of the Marquis de Marigny, Paris, March 18-April 6 1782, no. 126; purchased by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, 1782; exhibited at the Exposition d'art français du XVIII siecle, 1910, no. 60; sale of Joseph Bardac, Paris, December 9 1927, no. 135; Guerault, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Paris, 1928; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1763",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.5",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "tapestries"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_82.5_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_82.5_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_82.5_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 85,
            "height": 68.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 33 7/16 × W: 26 15/16 in. (85 × 68.5 cm); Framed H: 45 1/4 × W: 38 3/4 × D: 5 1/8 in. (115 × 98.5 × 13 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Carle Van Loo / Cozette exc. 1763",
    "med": "silk on cotton warp",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4386",
        "16145",
        "7092"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3390"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_82.5_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "mediaId": "93888a27a268ab12"
}