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    "localId": "100577",
    "label": "Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)",
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    "title": "Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836)",
    "description": "The French sculptor and medalist Alfred Borrel (1836-1927) created this portrait medal to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Rouget de L'Isle's death in 1836, the same year in which the sculptor was born.",
    "date": "1911",
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    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)",
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    "tombstone": "Medal of Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle (1760-1836), 1911. Alfred Borrel (French, 1836–1927). Bronze; overall: 5.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lawrence Hitchcock, 1919.99",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Obverse: raised inscription: ROUGET DE L'ISLE  1760  1836; inscribed lower left: A. BORREL\nReverse: [score and all verses of \"La Marseillaises\"]"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Claude Joseph Rouget de L'Isle composed the French national anthem, <em>La Marseillaises, </em>in 1792 in Strasbourg after France had declared war on Austria.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 5 (1919): 97-98.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 97",
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    "creditline": "Gift of Lawrence Hitchcock",
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