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    "localId": "8656",
    "label": "Virgin and Child",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.90"
}

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    "id": "8656",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.90",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Virgin and Child",
    "description": "The Virgin supports the standing Child, who playfully pulls on her veil. Their poses represent the Child taking his first step, a warm, natural subject popular in Swiss and German regions, but less often portrayed in France. The statuette has a flat back for attachment to a larger object, such as a shrine or diptych (two hinged panels). Traces of polychromy still visible by the traces of red in the Virgin's hair and in the hem of Christ's robe.",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1350-1360 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.90",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "statuettes (statues)",
        "ivories"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16.2,
            "height": 6.5,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 3/8 x 2 9/16 x 7/8 in. (16.2 x 6.5 x 2.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory with traces of paint",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "350",
        "2410"
    ]
}

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