Diameter: 86mm (approx.4") Weight: 270 gr (approx.9oz) Edge/Relief: 6mm
" INGRES 1780-1867 ", art medal in bronze, in very fine condition as scanned, RARE limited ed numbered EE/350 on edge, some spots and surface wear, signed Quérolle, marked 'Br', with horn of plenty (Paris mint)*+1966.
Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, "violon d'Ingres", meaning a hobby or avocation. The American avant-garde artist Man Ray used this expression as the title of a famous photograph portraying Alice Prin (aka Kiki de Montparnasse) in the pose of the Valpinçon Bather.
Obv. bust left of the painter.
Rev. one of the "Baigneuses" playing the lute recalling the famous ' Violon d'Ingres' which earned the painter his living at the start of his career.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Madeleine-Pierre QUEROLLE, born in 1914, painter, sculptor and medallist, pupil of JANDON & LAFAYE.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (August 29, 1780 – January 14, 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres' portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy.
A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix. His exemplars, he once explained, were "the great masters which flourished in that century of glorious memory when Raphael set the eternal and incontestable bounds of the sublime in art ... I am thus a conservator of good doctrine, and not an innovator." Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.
Mint Marks used at the PARIS MINT:
Plain Edge ==> All medals before March 30th 1832 have plain edges and before 1841 for bronze or copper.
Antique Lamp ==> from March 30th 1832 until October 21st 1841 (on gold & silver only).
Anchor ==> from October 21st 1841 until September 25th 1842.
Ship Prow ==> from September 26th 1842 until June 12th 1845.
Pointing Hand ==> from June 13th 1845 until October 1st 1860.
Bee ==> from November 1st 1860 until December 31st 1879.
Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) ==> from 1880 until now.
Interests/Themes keywords : Art medal, France, Art nouveau.
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