Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

France, Société des Artistes Français, 1887, a gilt-bronze award medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, robed female figure crowning the École des Beaux-Arts, putto inscribing tablet in foreground, rev. named (Peinture, Salon de 1887, Alexandre Thiollet, Médaille de 2me Classe), 61mm (PBE –; Coll. R. Marx 329). Scratch on reverse at 5 o’clock, otherwise virtually as struck, rare £80-100

Alexandre Thiollet (1824-98), landscape, marine and genre painter of the Honfleur school