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    "localId": "15331",
    "label": "Portrait of Henry IV, King of France",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.98"
}

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    "id": "15331",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.98",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Henry IV, King of France",
    "description": "In an astonishing display of virtuosity and amusing artifice, the unknown miniaturist painted the French king twice, one image directly on top of the other (but in reverse and with a black jacket and black pearl ear ring) on the same side of one piece of glass. Then, a second piece of glass was fitted over the top image. The portrait was probably for a locket.Henry of Bourbon, king of Navarre (1553-1610), became King Henry IV of France (after converting from Protestantism to Catholicism) in 1589.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1590-1605 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.98",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_38.98_Fnt_BW_H58.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_38.98_Fnt_BW_H58.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.2,
            "height": 3.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 5/8 x 1 5/16 in. (4.2 x 3.3 cm)"
}

{
    "reign": "Henry IV (AD 1572-1610)",
    "med": "oil paint on glass",
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    ]
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