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    "localId": "21639",
    "label": "Two Figures Walking in a Wooded Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2616"
}

{
    "id": "21639",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2616",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Two Figures Walking in a Wooded Landscape",
    "description": "The unusual curved format of this watercolor is believed to be a design for a lampshade. There is a similar watercolor of almost the same size dated 1895 in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (Accession number 2009.70.135).",
    "provenance": "Christian Humann (1929-1981), Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Shepherd Gallery, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, March 1984, by purchase.",
    "date": "1894",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2616",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.2616_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.2616_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.2616_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.3,
            "height": 33
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 15/16 x W: 13 in. (25.3 x 33 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\" H.Harpignies 94",
        "\"\" signed lower left; \"\"2\"\" in graphite",
        "upper left",
        "verso; \"\"Appartient a Comte C. Humann\"\" on backing",
        "in black ink; label at lower right",
        "\"\"Encadrements MIROSLAV/ 7-9 rue Visconti Paris 6e/tel. 325.46.14\"\""
    ],
    "med": "watercolor and pencil on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4869"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069",
        "3818"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_37.2616_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b90f65aa1301b6be"
}