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        "primaryTitle": "Confucius",
        "objectName": "watercolor",
        "dated": "1905",
        "classification": "Drawings",
        "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs",
        "medium": "watercolor and graphite pencil on tissue paper mounted over to heavy cream wove paperboard",
        "dimensions": "Sheet: 9 × 12 9/16 inches (22.9 × 31.9 cm)\r\nMount: 10 3/4 × 13 3/8 inches (27.3 × 34 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund ",
        "provenance": "1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: JLF 1905",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower left: Confucious.  He plays as usual | before his commentaries, or teaching | The disicples listen interpreting his meaning | He is seated in his usual seat: The Apricot Altar\r\nInscribed, on mount, lower right: Design for the Baltimore Court House\r\nInscribed, on mount, bottom right: Return to John La Farge 51 W [covered by mat]",
        "markings": ""
    },
    "creators": [
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            "displayName": "John La Farge",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1835-1910"
        }
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    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Copyright Not Evaluated",
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            "name": "United States",
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