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    "localId": "34525",
    "label": "The Slipper Merchant",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.105"
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    "id": "34525",
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    "contentType": "object",
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    "title": "The Slipper Merchant",
    "description": "In the dimly lit, richly colored interior of a North African shop, a turbaned merchant serves a customer seated on a divan. Kneeling in front is an attendant, and barely discernible in the background is a craftsman at work. To the left, a man smokes a hookah. Villegas has adopted a subject made popular by Mariano Fortuny, but rather than exploring light effects, he provides an almost overwhelmingly detailed array of bric-a-brac. Even the picture frame, custom-ordered for this painting, is inscribed in Naskh script: \"There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his Prophet.\"",
    "provenance": "William T. Blodgett Sale, New York, 1876, no. 60; purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1872",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.105",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 48.3,
            "height": 65
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 19 x W: 25 9/16 in. (48.3 x 65 cm); Framed H: 36 1/8 × W: 42 3/4 × D: 5 1/4 in. (91.76 × 108.59 × 13.34 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower left: Villegas; [Date] Lower left: 1872",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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        "3300",
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