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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
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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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