1972.264: Napoléon I (1769-1821)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1972.264

People

Jean Pierre Droz, Swiss (Le-Chaux-des-Fonds 1746 - 1823 Paris, France)

Title

Napoléon I (1769-1821)

Classification

Medals and Medallions

Work Type

medal

Date

1804

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/221563

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

4.1 cm diam. x 0.6 cm depth (1 5/8 x 1/4 in.)
35.26 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l. in truncation: DROZ FECIT
• inscription: obverse, around perimeter: NAPOLEON EMP. ET ROI
• inscription: reverse, around perimeter: DESCENTE EN ANGLETERRE; [below figures:] FRAPPE À LONDRES / EN 1804
• inscription: obverse, under bust: DENON DIREXT

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Frederick M. Watkins, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1972.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins

Accession Year

1972

Object Number

1972.264

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Obverse: Napoleon in right profile, wearing laurel-wreath crown. Reverse: a man and a mer-man (presumably France and England?) struggling.

Publication History

• The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), no. 5, p. 163, repr.

Exhibition History

• The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973

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