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    "localId": "33637",
    "label": "Robespierre le Jeune (1764-1794)",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.835"
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    "id": "33637",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.835",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Robespierre le Jeune (1764-1794)",
    "description": "Augustin-Bon Joseph de Robespierre was a lawyer and brother of Maximilien Robespierre, the famous French revolutionary leader. Like his elder brother, he was guillotined in 1794. The inscription reads in translation, \"I share my brother's virtues. I wish to share his fate. I demand a decree of arrest against me as well. (9 Thermidor)\"",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.835",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "medallions (medals)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_54.835_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 6 5/16 in. (16 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Bottom center: P.J. David; [Transcription] At left: JE PARTAGE LES / VERTUS DE MON FRERE.JE / VEUX PARTAGER SON SORT JE / DEMANDE AUSI LE DECRET D'ARRESTON / CONTRE MOI / (9 THERMIDOR); [Translation] At left: I share my brother's virtues. I wish to share his fate. I demand a decree of arrest against me as well; [Inscription] At right: Robespierre Jeune; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3099"
    ]
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_54.835_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
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