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    "localId": "31691",
    "label": "Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.846"
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    "id": "31691",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.846",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pigault-Lebrun (1753-1835)",
    "description": "Charles-Antoine-Guillaume Pigault de l'Espinoy (known as Pigault-Lebrun), French novelist, was born in Calais in 1753. He had a stormy youth, but finding his true vocation, he wrote more than twenty plays and a number of novels, the most celebrated of which is \"L'Enfant du carnaval.\" He died in La Celle-Saint-Cloud in 1835.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1831",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.846",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "medallions (medals)",
        "portraits"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Bottom center: DAVID; [Date] Bottom center: 1831; [Inscription] On left: PIGAULT LEBRUN; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS",
    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
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    ],
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}

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