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    "localId": "119025",
    "label": "Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand",
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    "title": "Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand",
    "description": "Bertrand was a military engineer and companion of Emperor Napoleon, who described the bridges his friend Bertrand built for the French crossing of the Danube at Wagram in 1809 as the finest since the Romans.",
    "date": "1808",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: 4.3 x 3.4 cm (1 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Unframed: 3.9 x 3 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel frame",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, 1808. Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855). Watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel frame; framed: 4.3 x 3.4 cm (1 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); unframed: 3.9 x 3 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1940.1211",
    "collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed lower right:  Isabey [inscribed on case:  Henri, 17 Septembre 1808.]"
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        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. <em>Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. </em>1951.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 23, p. 35, cat. 67; reproduced: Plate XXXIII",
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