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{
    "localId": "8411",
    "label": "Portrait of Virginia de' Medici (1568-1615)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1112"
}

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    "id": "8411",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1112",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Virginia de' Medici (1568-1615)",
    "description": "The young woman portrayed here is Virginia de' Medici (1568-1615), daughter of Grand Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany. She is dressed in opulent clothes and sumptuous jewelry, indicating her status as a member of one of the wealthy, prominent families in Florence. Beside a pearl ensemble with a single-strand necklace of large pearls, matching earrings, and pearls woven into her hair, she wears a large collar with intricate gold segments decorated with pearls and gemstones. There are at least four versions of this portrait; one that is seemingly nearly identical in style to the Walters' portrait was on the market in 2016 and attributed to the Florentine painter Giovanni Maria Butteri (1540-1606), who worked with Alessandro Allori. Butteri's best known portrait is a group portrait dated 1574 of several members of the Medici family; the hard surfaces are very similar to those in the present painting.",
    "provenance": "Marquess Filippo Marignoli, Rome and Spoleto, until 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Marquess Francesco Marignoli, 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, 1899 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1900 catalogue supplement: no. 40, as Bronzino]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1590 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1112",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.1112_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.1112_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.1112_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 46.3,
            "height": 41.3,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Panel H including added strips: 18 1/4 x W: 16 1/4 x D excluding cradle: 3/8 in. (46.3 x 41.3 x 1 cm); Original painted surface H: 17 1/8 x W: 13 3/4 in. (43.5 x 35 cm)"
}

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    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "34610"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_37.1112_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7e9fb79e080d4d2a"
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