Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

France, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1885, a cast bronze medal by J.-C. Chaplain, bust right, rev. naked female seated left at easel, sphinx, Blue Mosque and gladiator’s helmet in background, 102mm (cf. PBE 103; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.52, 24; Coll. R. Marx –; BDM I, 403). Very fine and very rare £300-400

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), French orientalist and painter