Médaille - François Duquesnoy

Features

Location Belgium
Type Commemorative medals › Personality or portrait medal
Years 1848-1850
Composition Bronze
Weight 43.2 g
Diameter 46.8 mm
Thickness 5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
317784

Obverse

The right bust of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FRANÇ. DUQUESNOY
NÉ EN 1594 M. EN 1642
JOUVENEL

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Reverse

In the upper field, a chisel and a sculptor's mallet.
The rest of the field is occupied by a text in relief summarizing his life as an artist.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
F. DUQUESNOY DE BRUXELLES,
QUE L’ITALIE A SURNOMMÉ IL
FLAMINGO, FUT UN DES SCULPTEURS
LES PLUS CÉLÈBRES DE SON SIÈCLE.
OUTRE SES STATUES D’ENFANTS QU’ON
SE PLAIT A VANTER, LES GRANDS
OUVRAGES QU’IL EXÉCUTA A ROME
DEPUIS 1622, FONT ENCORE AUJOURD’HUI
L’ADMIRATION DES CONNAISSEURS.
1640, IL PLACE DANS LA BASILIQUE DE
ST PIERRE SA STATUE DE ST ANDRÉ.
1642, IL MEURT À LIVOURNE AU
MOMENT OÙ LE ROI LOUIS XIII
VENAIT DE LE NOMMER SON
PREMIER SCULPTEUR.

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Edge

Plain

Comments

From 1848 to 1850, Adolphe-Christian Jouvenel engraved and published in Brussels a collection of 25 bronze medals in ±47 mm modules, depicting portraits of "Belgium's great men". At the time, each medal was sold for 4 Belgian francs.
34 mm bronze or brass tokens reproducing some of these medals were also engraved, to make the publication accessible to all, according to the prospectus of the time, with a more democratic selling price of 50 centimes.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1848-1850) 

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