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{
    "localId": "9016",
    "label": "Portrait of Jacques-Auguste De Thou (?)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.62"
}

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    "id": "9016",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.62",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Jacques-Auguste De Thou (?)",
    "description": "Portraiture, which flourished in the 16th century in France, continued for the most part in the Franco-Flemish tradition of the realistic, straight-forward likeness established at the end of the Middle Ages. Painted enamel on copper was a good medium for small portrits because the image is so clear and has something of the glossy character admired in objects intended for decoration of the home.",
    "provenance": "Germeau Collection, no. 5; Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, Paris, April 17, 1893, no. 537; Sigismond Bardac, Paris, by purchase; Liquidation Sale, Seligmann Bros., Paris, March 16-17, 1914, no. 73; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, 1914, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1575 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.62",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.62_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.62_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.3,
            "height": 16.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 5/8 x W: 6 7/16 in. (19.3 x 16.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[signature] P. C.",
    "med": "painted enamels on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2005"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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