1903.20: Louis XI of France (1423-1483)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1903.20

People

After Georges Liard Sr., French (active 1895-1913)
After Francesco Laurana, Italian (Dalmatia 1430 - 1500 Avignon France)

Title

Louis XI of France (1423-1483)

Classification

Medals and Medallions

Work Type

medal

Date

c. 1902

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232332

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Technique

Cast

Dimensions

155.45 g, 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Divus Lodovicus Rex Francorum [=Divine Louis King of the French]; back: Concordia Augusta [=royal harmony]. [In the copy described by Friedlander [Die Italienischen Schalmünzen des Funfzehnten Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1882] and Armand [Les Médailleurs Italiens des Quinzième et Seizieme Siecles, Paris 1883], the exergue has the words Franciscus Laurus Fecit; Friedlander mentions copies without the artist's name.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Georges Liard, Sr., Paris, France, sold; to Horatio Greenough Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1903.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horatio G. Curtis

Accession Year

1903

Object Number

1903.20

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fogg Art Museum, Charles Moore, and Horatio Greenough Curtis, Catalogue of Bronze Reproductions of Italian and French Medals of the Renaissance, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, c. 1903), p. 10-11

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