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    "localId": "34461",
    "label": "The Abduction of Deianira",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1836"
}

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    "id": "34461",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
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    "title": "The Abduction of Deianira",
    "description": "In a popular story involving the loves of the gods from Greco-Roman mythology, the centaur Nessus escapes through the Euenus River with the abducted Deianira, the wife of Hercules, who comes to her rescue. Clad in a lion's skin, he is about to shoot the arrow which will kill the centaur. The cupid with a torch symbolizes the amorous passions that motivated Nessus. The old man with the urn gushing water is the river-god Euenus, and the attending women are nymphs, spirits of the water. The oval painting field indicates that the painting was to be set into a larger framework, and, indeed, Pozzi was primarily known for his decorative ensembles.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 414, pp. 525-526.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 794, as Nicolas Poussin]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1730-1767 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1836",
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    "language": "en",
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    "dimensions": [
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