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    "localId": "6023",
    "label": "Marc-Guillaume-Albert Vadier (1736-1828)",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.823"
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    "id": "6023",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.823",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Marc-Guillaume-Albert Vadier (1736-1828)",
    "description": "Vadier, a politician and member of the Convention-a constitutional and legislative assembly-called for the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1791. During the Thermidorean Reaction, a revolt within the revolutionary movement in which the excesses of the Reign of Terror were denounced, he had the radical Maximilien Robespierre brought to trial and executed.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1818",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.823",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "medallions (medals)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 6 in. (15.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Bottom center: P.J. David; [Date] Bottom center: 1818; [Inscription] On left: Vadier député pour le peuple; [Inscription] On right: français a l'assemblée constituante et à / la convention; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS",
    "med": "bronze",
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        "4989"
    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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