70grs approx, award Art medal, signed, first issued in 1869 a specimen in very fine condition as scanned, rim nicks, edge marked  with horn (Paris mint argent (silver 950.1000)

Reference : see CGMP p213 vol2.

Eugène-André OUDINÉ (1810-1889), Sculpteur & Medallist. Pupil of Galle (engravings on steel), Petitot (sculpture) and Ingres (drawing). Awarded the Premier Grand Prix de Rome de gravure en médailles in 1831. Great medallists such as Chaplain, Ponscarme and Tasset learned their art under Oudiné. When at the Villa Médicis Oudiné worked under Ingres who became director after Horace Vernet. Oudiné came back in France in 1836 and married Antoinette-Jeanne, the daughter of Vauthier (the painter). Oudiné was one of the first medallists to make struck medals by the help of a reducing machine, in the modern French style, having something of the ‘soft’ appearance of a cast medal.