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France, Alfred Fournier, 1902, a bronze medal by J.-C. Chaplain, bust left, reverse seated Fournier warning a winged naked male youth representing Love, who holds a bow and sheaf of arrows, 68mm (PBE 85; BDM VII, 175; Brettauer 363). Extremely fine, lightly patinated, an attractive example (£40-60)

Alfred Fournier (1832-1915), professor of medicine who specialised in syphilis