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    "label": "Self-Portrait",
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    "id": "119016",
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    "title": "Self-Portrait",
    "date": "c. 1805",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: 13 x 9.8 cm (5 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.); Sight: 5.7 x 4.4 cm (2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
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    "tec": "watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal frame",
    "tombstone": "Self-Portrait, c. 1805. Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (French, 1759–1832). Watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal frame; framed: 13 x 9.8 cm (5 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.); sight: 5.7 x 4.4 cm (2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1940.1202",
    "collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Inscribed on card backing the miniature: PORTRAIT/DE MSR AUGUSTIN/PAR LUI"
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    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art.<em> Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: plate XXX, no. 55, p. 33",
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