France
The medals of France largely followed Italian examples until the end of the sixteenth century, which saw achievements such as the exquisite cast medals and medallions of Guillaume Dupré. The struck medals of Louis XIV’s Histoire métallique (hundreds of medals produced over sixty years to celebrate his reign) dominated medallic art in France, where, in the nineteenth century, cast medals in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance were revived through the work of the sculptor Pierre-Jean David d’Angers.
Unknown artist
Charles VII, King of France (b. 1403; r. 1422–61), dated 1455
Silver, struck
Diam.: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 94
Nicolas Leclerc (act. 1487–1507) and Jean de Saint-Priest (act. 1490–1516)
Louis XII, King of France (b. 1462; r. 1498–1515), and Anne of Brittany (1476–1514), dated 1499
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 4 1/2 in. (11.44 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 95
Unknown French artist, after Giovanni Candida
Louise of Savoy (1476–1531) and Marguerite of Angoulême (1492–1549), ca. 1504–12
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 2 11/16 in. (6.87 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 96
Germain Pilon (ca. 1525–1590)
Henri II, King of France (b. 1519; r. 1547–59), dated 1559
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 6 7/16 in. (16.36 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 97
Unknown artist
Catherine de Bourbon, Duchess of Bar (1558–1604), dated 1599
Copper alloy, cast
2 1/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.21 × 4.13 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 98
Guillaume Dupré (ca. 1579–1640)
Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621), dated 1613
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 3 11/16 in. (9.31 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 99
Guillaume Dupré (ca. 1579–1640)
Christine of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1565–1636), 1613
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 100
Guillaume Dupré (ca. 1579–1640)
Pierre Jeannin (1540–1622), dated 1618
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 7 3/8 in. (18.75 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 101
Jean Warin (1606–1672)
Antoine Coëffier, called Ruzé, Marquess of Éffiat (1581–1632), dated 1629
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 2 9/16 in. (6.54 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 102
Jean Warin (1606–1672)
Anne of Austria (1601–1666) and Louis XIV, King of France
(b. 1638, r. 1643–1715), 1645 (dated 1638)
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 3 13/16 in. (9.75 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 103
Thomas Bernard (1650–1713)
Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), dated 1711
Gilt copper alloy, struck
Diam.: 2 7/16 in. (6.14 cm)
Scher Collection; Promised gift to The Frick Collection
Cat. 104
Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720)
Louis XV as a Child of Six, 1716
Marble
23 1/2 × 20 × 8 3/4 in. (59.7 × 50.8 × 22.2 cm)
The Frick Collection; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Ira H. Kaufman, 1990
Cat. 105
Unknown artist
Meeting of the Estates General, dated 1789
Lead-tin alloy, cast
Diam.: 3 1/16 in. (7.72 cm)
Scher Collection; Promised gift to The Frick Collection
Cat. 106
Bertrand Andrieu (1761–1822)
Siege of the Bastille, dated 1789
Lead-tin alloy, cast
Diam.: 3 1/8 in. (8 cm)
Scher Collection; Promised gift to The Frick Collection
Cat. 107
Bertrand Andrieu (1761–1822)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821; First Consul 1799–1804; Emperor of France 1804–14/15), dated 1800
Lead alloy, cast
Diam.: 2 11/16 in. (6.83 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 108
Bertrand Andrieu (1761–1822) and Nicolas Guy Antoine Brenet (1773–1846)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821; First Consul 1799–1804; Emperor of France 1804–14/15), 1805
Silver, struck
Diam.: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 109
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788–1856)
Josephine Bonaparte (1763–1814; Empress Consort of France 1804–10; Queen Consort of Italy 1805–10), ca. 1832
Gilt copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 7 in. (17.78 cm)
Scher Collection; Promised gift to The Frick Collection
Cat. 110
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788–1856)
Jean-Victor Schnetz (1787–1870), dated 1828
Plaster
Diam. (with loop): 5 3/16 in. (13.17 cm)
Diam.: 4 7/8 in. (12.37 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 111
Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788–1856)
Pierre-René Choudieu (1761–1838), 1832
Wax on slate
5 5/8 × 4 15/16 in. (14.25 × 12.56 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 112
Jean-Jacques Richard (1792–1865)
Justin Liberté, dated 189
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 3 11/16 in. (9.32 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 113
Antoine-Augustin Préault (1809–1879)
Alphonse Louis David (1798–after 1849), ca. 1838
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 7 3/4 in. (19.69 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 114
Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909)
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), dated 1885
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 4 in. (10.19 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 115
Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909)
Personification of Painting, 1885
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 4 in. (10.11 cm)
The Frick Collection; Gift of Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2016
Cat. 116
Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909)
Sarah Gustave Simon (dates unknown), dated 1889
Gilt galvanotype
Diam.: 4 13/16 in. (12.19 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 117