France, Lorraine, Germany, Lothringen, René II & Philippa of Gelderland Medal
LORRAINE, René II & Philippa of Gelderland, a copper medal, unsigned [by F. de Saint-Urbain], undated, 46mm (BDM V, 310, no. 45).
Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain, born in 1654 or 1658 in Nancy and died in the same city on January 10, 1738, was a designer, engraver and architect from Lorraine who worked in Rome and Nancy and who worked for other princes of the courts of Europe. One of the best known Medallists of the end of the seventeenth and first four decades of the eighteenth century. In 1673 he was Appointed Mint-engraver at Bologna. In 1683 Pope Innocent XI named him chief Engraver of the Mint at Rome. In 1704 Urbain returned to the Nancy mint in Lorraine. He is said to have executed over 120 medals, which include a series of the Dukes and Duchesses of Lorraine.
Extremely fine
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