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    "localId": "37794",
    "label": "Dutch Ships in High Seas off the Dutch Coast",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.340"
}

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    "id": "37794",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.340",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dutch Ships in High Seas off the Dutch Coast",
    "description": "Backhuysen's seascapes demonstrate the simple, harmonious proportions found in many Dutch depictions of the ocean: water occupies about one quarter of the compositions, while ships silhouetted against an immense cloudy sky occupy the remainder. This recreates the experience of being out on the water; indeed, Backhuysen hired fishermen to take him out in storms to study wind and waves.This painting is from the 1660s, the artist's best period. His fame was such that in 1697-98, when the Russian tsar Peter the Great visited the Dutch Republic to study European shipbuilding and the arts, Backhuysen was asked to teach him painting.",
    "provenance": "Gilmor Collection;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1660-1669 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.340",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_37.340_Fnt_SL_T86.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 53.4,
            "height": 68.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "21 x 27 in. (53.4 x 68.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6852"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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