© CGB
© CGB
Medal - Glory of Fontainebleau and Barbizon
1938 year| Bronze | 135 g | 68 mm |
| Location | France |
|---|---|
| Period | Third Republic (1870-1940) |
| Type | Medals › Commemorative medals |
| Year | 1938 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 135 g |
| Diameter | 68 mm |
| Thickness | 5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Updated | 2024-11-12 |
| Numista | N#169374 |
|---|---|
| Rarity index | 97% |
Reverse
Scene of hunting, with a boar between two dogs in a forest environment.
Lettering:
DANS·LA·GRANDE·FORÊT·CE·NE·SONT·PAS·DES·MOINEAUX
MAIS·BEAUX·ET·BONS·SANGLIERS·DAIMS·ET·CERFS·BONS·ET·BEAUX
T·S·S·FEC
A·D·1938
Engraver: René Baudichon
Edge
Smooth with punch (cornucopia)
Lettering: BRONZE
Comment
The preparatory plaster casts for this medal have been in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, since 2005; the right (inventory numbers S3824 and S3824BIS) by Raymond Joly-Clare (1911-2006), former general engraver at the Monnaie de Paris, and the reverse (inventory number S3787) by René Baudichon (1878-1963), French sculptor, medalist and caricaturist.The Barbizon School was the geographical and spiritual center of a colony of landscape painters who wanted to work "from nature". The name derives from the village of Barbizon, on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest (Seine-et-Marne), around which a number of painters flocked for almost fifty years between 1825 and 1875: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (1807-1876), Constant Troyon (1810-1865), Jules Dupré (1811-1889), Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) and Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878).
