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    "localId": "12132",
    "label": "Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.838"
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    "id": "12132",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.838",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)",
    "description": "Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) worked as a typefounder, printer, and editor before achieving fame as a writer with \"Le Dernier chouan\" in 1829. The creator of the realistic novel, he is considered France's greatest novelist.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1843",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.838",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 7 5/16 in. (18.5 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Bottom center: David; [Date] Bottom center: 1843; [Inscription] On left: Balzac; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS",
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