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    "localId": "40581",
    "label": "The Retreat from Russia",
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    "title": "The Retreat from Russia",
    "description": "Remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army retreating from Moscow in the winter of 1812-13 have bivouacked around a ruined church. The foreground in cluttered with debris and huddled figures. Discernible are grenadiers of the Garde Imperiale and members of the regular forces. A tonsured monk is praying at the base of a religious image exposed on the building's wall. In the background French soldiers ward off the attacking Cossacks. Ominously hovering overhead in the leaden skies are flocks of vultures.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st half 19th century (Modern)",
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34.5,
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        }
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 9/16 x W: 17 11/16 in. (34.5 x 45 cm)"
}

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