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{
    "localId": "8293",
    "label": "Tiger Attacking a Stag",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "sculpture",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.450"
}

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    "id": "8293",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.450",
    "contentType": "sculpture",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tiger Attacking a Stag",
    "description": "Seized by a tiger, the stag emits a final gasp. This sculpture replicates Barye's carving in stone that the government purchased in 1836 for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyons, France. In addition to bearing Barye's signature, the Walters' version is signed \"Soyer.\" Louis Claude Ferdinand Soyer (1785-1854) was a sculptor, founder, and metal chaser, or finisher. Rather than casting this particular piece in bronze, Soyer employed an electrotype process in which a copper alloy is deposited onto the surface of a mold using a galvanic, or electric, current.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, May 20, 1886, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent at Sichel, Paris]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "modeled 1830",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.450",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Sculpture",
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.450_Prof_TR_T05III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.450_Prof_TR_T05III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_27.450_Prof_TR_T05III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.9,
            "height": 57.2,
            "depth": 34.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "11 3/8 x 22 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (28.9 x 57.2 x 34.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature and Date] Cast through from model: BARYE 1830; [Signature] SOYER.",
    "med": "copper alloy electrotype with warm brown patina",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15112",
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "484"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_27.450_Fnt_TR_T05II-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e66a773b2faa8928"
}