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        "primaryTitle": "Pygmalion and Galatea",
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        "dated": "1781",
        "classification": "Paintings",
        "department": "European Painting",
        "medium": "oil on canvas",
        "dimensions": "Unframed: 23 3/8 × 19 1/4 inches (59.4 × 48.9 cm)\r\nFramed: 30 5/8 × 26 1/2 × 3 1/8 inches (77.8 × 67.3 × 7.9 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Long Fund, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund and City of Detroit Insurance Recovery Fund ",
        "provenance": "December 2, 1795, probably consigned by the artist, sold by (Salle de vente, rue Française no. 13, près celle du Petit-Lion, Paris, France) Villers sale, part of lot 3;\r\n1869, sold by (Dubourg, Paris, France);\r\nMarch 23, 1908, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) lot 31 [titled La Sculpture];\r\n1908, purchased by Lesour de Villiers;\r\n(Galerie Joseph Hahn, Paris, France);\r\n1972, (H. Shickman Gallery, New York, New York, USA);\r\n1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed and dated, upper right: L Lagrenee/1781",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": ""
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            "displayName": "Louis Jean François Lagrenée",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "French",
            "bio": "French, 1724-1805"
        }
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            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
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