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{
    "localId": "33451",
    "label": "Portrait of Louis XVI (1745-93)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.27"
}

{
    "id": "33451",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.27",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Louis XVI (1745-93)",
    "description": "This tapestry, reproducing a portrait of the king painted at the time of his coronation by Joseph Duplessis (1774), was presented as a state gift to Prince Henry of Prussia in 1784. It remained in the possession of the reigning family of Germany until 1919.\tThe king wears the grand cordon of the Order of the Holy Spirit and the Order of the Golden Fleece.",
    "provenance": "Louis XVI, Paris, 1774 [woven expressly for the King by the Gobelins factory]; Henry of Prussia, 1784, by gift; Royal family of Prussia, by inheritance; Kaiser Wilhelm II, until 1918, by inheritance [confiscated when the Kaiser attempted to flee to Doorn in Holland]; Pollak [dealer], Brussels, [date of aquisition unknown] by purchase; Mr. and Mrs. William Hallam Tuck, Upper Marlboro, MD, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1956, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1774",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/82.27",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textiles",
        "tapestries"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_82.27_Fnt_TR_T02III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_82.27_Fnt_TR_T02III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_82.27_Fnt_TR_T02III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 79.3,
            "height": 65.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "31 1/4 x 25 7/8 in. (79.3 x 65.7 cm);Framed: 51 x 37 x 10 in. (129.5 x 94 x 25.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] Original frame: DONNE PAR LOUIS XVI. 1784",
    "med": "wool",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4644",
        "16145"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2615",
        "316"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_82.27_Fnt_DD_AT21_22395-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7394e06d6037f48a"
}