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    "label": "Portrait of a Man",
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    "id": "119026",
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    "title": "Portrait of a Man",
    "date": "early 1790s",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.); Diameter of frame: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)",
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        "France, late 18th century"
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    "tec": "watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal mount",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of a Man, early 1790s. Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855). Watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal mount; diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.); diameter of frame: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1940.1212",
    "collection": "P - French 18th Century",
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        {
            "inscription": "signed lower right:  Isabey"
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        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. <em>Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: plate XXXIII, no. 67; Mentioned: 35",
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