WORLD HISTORICAL AND ART MEDALS 1498
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1885, a cast bronze medal by J.-C. Chaplain, bust right, rev. naked female seated left at easel, sphinx, Blue Mosque and gladiator’s helmet in background, 102mm (cf. PBE 103; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.52, 24; Coll. R. Marx –; BDM I, 403).Very fine and very rare
£300-400 Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), French orientalist and painter 1499
Société des Artistes Français, 1887, a gilt-bronze award medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, robed female figure crowning the École des Beaux-Arts, putto inscribing tablet in foreground, rev. named (Peinture, Salon de 1887, Alexandre Thiollet, Médaille de 2me Classe), 61mm (PBE –; Coll. R. Marx 329). Scratchon reverseat 5 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck, rare
£80-100 Alexandre Thiollet (1824-98), landscape, marine and genre painter of the Honfleur school
1500
Louis Pasteur, 1888, a silver medal by L.-O. Roty for the Pasteur Institute, bust left, rev. oak wreath, 37mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.93; PBE 842); Les Fondeurs, 1900, a silver medal by H.-A.-J. Patey, edge lettered, 37mm (PBE 668; CGMP p.298; BDM IV, 426); Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900, a silver medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis adapted for a Silver Wedding gift, named (Henri Bardot, Marie Liénard, 5 Juillet, 1881-1906), 50mm (cf. PBE 317); Société des Agriculteurs de France, a silver award medal by C. Trotin, named (Enseignement Agricole 1902, E. Coudy), 54mm; Charité, 1911, a silver award medal by L. Desvignes, named (Bureau de Bienfaisance de Nantes, M. le Docteur F.A. Perrion, Médécin Titulaire), 50mm (CGMP p.145; cf. DW 26, 936); together with other silver award medals (3), by Daniel-Dupuis, Roty and Rivet [8]. About veryfine and better, mostly toned, second rare
£90-120 1501
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, a plated bronze award medal by L.-A. Bottée, Marianne crowning a seated artisan, Expo pavilion and Eiffel Tower below, rev. Fame seated on branch of tree, blowing trumpet, tablet below, named (Bonnarme), 63mm (PBE 9; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, 15; BDM I, 231; cf. DNW M5, 1464); Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900, a plated bronze plaque by L.-O. Roty, 51 x 36mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.90; Coll. R. Marx 74-5; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.269, 30; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.48, 179; BDMVI, 239; cf. DNW M2, 2504) [2]. First good very fine, second about very fine
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