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    "localId": "34005",
    "label": "\"\"Surtout de table\"\": Python Killing a Gnu",
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    "dtoType": "sculpture",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.152"
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    "id": "34005",
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    "contentType": "sculpture",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "\"\"Surtout de table\"\": Python Killing a Gnu",
    "description": "Barye was fascinated by large snakes and portrayed them in sculptures and paintings. Two Javanese pythons were sent to the Jardin des Plantes in 1838. In this sculpture, a python has entwined itself around the body of a gnu, an African antelope also known as a wildebeest. This sculpture is one of four animal combats that originally stood at the base of the triumphal arch supporting the \"Tiger Hunt.\" Two of the other combats, \"Eagle Attacking a Wounded Ibex\" and \"Lion Attacking a Boar,\" are now in the Louvre Museum; the fourth, \"Tiger Devouring a Large Antelope,\" belongs to the Detroit Institute of Arts.",
    "provenance": "Duc d'Orléans, 1834, by commission; duchesse d'Orléans Sale, Paris, January 18-20, 1853, no. 2; Alphonse de Hautpoul; Maurice Mallet; Henry Walters, Baltimore, November 19, 1906, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1834-1839",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.152",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "sculpture (visual works)"
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            "width": 21.6,
            "height": 29.2,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "8 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (21.6 x 29.2 x 24.1 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Cast through from model: BARYE.",
    "RelatedObjects": 9927,
    "med": "bronze with warm brown patina over areas of metallic flake or powdered surface with traces of gilding",
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2283",
        "2197"
    ]
}

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