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    "core": {
        "objectID": 57648,
        "objectNumber": "54.2",
        "primaryTitle": "The Holy Family",
        "objectName": "painting",
        "dated": "1641",
        "classification": "Paintings",
        "department": "European Painting",
        "medium": "oil on canvas",
        "dimensions": "Unframed: 28 × 22 1/8 inches (71.1 × 56.2 cm)\r\nFramed: 34 × 28 × 2 1/2 inches (86.4 × 71.1 × 6.4 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson ",
        "provenance": "the artist, Nicolas Poussin (Paris, France);\r\n1642, delivered by the artist to (Giovanni Stefano Roccatagliata [d. 1652], Rome, Italy);\r\npossibly bequeathed by to Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, younger brother of Cassiano dal Pozzo;\r\nby descent to his son, Gabariele dal Pozzo;\r\nby 1740, Boccapaduli, no. 59;\r\n1760-December 1760, acquired by Louis-Auguste le Tonnelier de Breteuil [1722-1785], Ambassador of Malta (Rome, Italy);\r\nDecember 1760, possibly sold by (Lebrun) [with other paintings belonging to Breteuil, see Lugt 1128];\r\nby 1770, Robert Ansell (London, England);\r\nFebruary 15, 1771, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Ansell, lot 72;\r\n1771, purchased by by Lord Melbourne;\r\nPeniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne [1779-1829] (Melbourne House, Derbyshire, England);\r\nby inheritance to William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne [1779-1848];\r\nby inheritance to his brother, Frederick James Lamb, William Lamb, third Viscount Melbourne [1782-1853];\r\nby inheritance to his sister, Emily Mary, formerly wife of the fifth Earl Cowper and then Lady Palmerson [1787-1869];\r\nby inheritance to her second son, W.F. Cowper-Temple, later Baron Mount Temple\r\nby inheritance to ELady Palmerson's grandson, Evelyn Ashley [1836-1907];\r\nuntil 1924, Captain Langton Douglas (London, England);\r\nNovember 17, 1924, purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb [d. 1953] (Detroit, Michigan, USA);\r\n1953, by descent to Mrs. Harriet Whitcomb Wilkinson (Detroit, Michigan, USA);\r\n1954-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, center of canvas, partially obscured: VIRGO MARIA IOSEPH FE | N POUSSIN 16",
        "markings": ""
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Nicolas Poussin",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "French",
            "bio": "French, 1594-1665"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family, 1641, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson, 54.2."
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    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "religious art",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "Christianity",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "interior",
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        },
        {
            "name": "religion",
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        {
            "name": "oil paint",
            "type": "material"
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        {
            "name": "canvas",
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        {
            "name": "figures (representations)",
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            "name": "painting (visual work)",
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        {
            "name": "France",
            "type": "creation"
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            "name": "Holy Family",
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    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
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