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    "localId": "6164",
    "label": "Jean Pierre Boyer (1776-1850)",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.844"
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    "id": "6164",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.844",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Jean Pierre Boyer (1776-1850)",
    "description": "Inspired by the French Revolution, people of color on the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) successfully revolted against their French and Spanish colonizers; Haiti became an independent republic in 1804. Boyer was a soldier, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and president of Haiti from 1818 to 1843.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1845",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.844",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "medallions (medals)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 6 15/16 in. (17.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Bottom center: David; [Date] Bottom center: 1845; [Inscription] On left: Boyer / EX PRESIDENT / D'HAITI; [Inscription] On obverse: FUMIÈRE / ET CIE SUCRS - THIEBAUT FRES / PARIS",
    "med": "bronze",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "3099"
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}

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