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    "localId": "33957",
    "label": "Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, Vicomte Barras (1755-1829)",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.824"
}

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    "id": "33957",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.824",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, Vicomte Barras (1755-1829)",
    "description": "Barras participated in the overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre, who had instituted the Reign of Terror (September 1793-July 1794), the most brutal phase if the French Revolution in which many thousands of people were executed. It was Barras, in 1795, who ordered General Bonaparte to disperse a crowd of counterrevolutionaries in Paris with cannon fire.",
    "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/54.824",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "medallions (medals)",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 15.2 cm (15.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Bottom center: David;  [Inscription] On right: P. Barras; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS",
    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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