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{
    "localId": "1985",
    "label": "\"\"Surtout de table\"\": Lion Hunt",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "sculpture",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.174"
}

{
    "id": "1985",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.174",
    "contentType": "sculpture",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "\"\"Surtout de table\"\": Lion Hunt",
    "description": "In this North African scene, two Arab hunters pursue a lion and lioness, which, in turn, have been gnawing a fallen water buffalo. The horsemen's billowing garments add to the sense of drama. Scholars have suggested that the shallow, frieze-like quality of this sculpture was inspired by a Roman sculptural relief such as those found on the sides of a sarcophagus.",
    "provenance": "Duc d'Orléans, 1834, by commission; duchesse d'Orleans Sale, Paris, January 18-20, 1853, no. 3 or 4; Count Anatole Demidoff Sale, Paris, April 21, 1870, no. 167; Montessier; G. Mallais Sale, Paris, 1882, no. 147; Georges Sortais; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 17, 1898, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1834-1837",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.174",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Sculpture",
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.174_Prof_TR_T05II.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.174_Prof_TR_T05II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.174_Prof_TR_T05II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 45.7,
            "height": 67.3,
            "depth": 30.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 18 x W: 26 1/2 x D: 12 in. (45.7 x 67.3 x 30.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Cast through from model: BARYE / 1837; [Transcription] Inscribed on base: BRONZE D'UN SEUL JET SANS CISELURE/ coule a l'hotel d'Angevilliers par Honore Gonon et ses deux fils; [Translation] Inscribed on base: Only bronze cast without carving/ cast at the Hotel D'Angevilliers by Honoré Gonon and his two sons.",
    "med": "bronze with brown patina over a metallic flake or powdered surface, with extensive traces of gilding, particularly on the stirrup of the lead horse",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2159",
        "2283",
        "13",
        "3300"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_27.174_VwH_DD_AT23_41072-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c6157a5306c8e41a"
}