Diameter: 50/51 mm (approx.2") Weight: 60 gr (approx.2oz) Edge/Relief: 4 mm

France, 1872 " Association Française contre l'abus des boissons Alcooliques (French society against the abuse of alcoholic beverages) ", art medal, award, not attributed,

a specimen c. 1870s in very fine condition as scanned, rim knocks, edge marked cuivre with bee (Paris mint 1860-1879

Bibliography : see Forrer p106 vol7, Marx p45.

Obv. woman representing the Republic, holding cup in right hand from which a snake seems to be drinking, with the left hand she seems to have just killed somekind of a beast maybe a dragon.

Rev. laurels crown.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST 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. Photo , Document1, Document2, Document3.