medal
- Museum number
- M.2189
- Description
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Oval cast lead medal with an incuse reverse, pierced. (whole)
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Bust of Louis XIII, right, laureate, wearing armour, a cloak and the sash and cross of the Order of the Holy Ghost. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1611 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 90.000 millimetres
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Weight: 66.58 grammes
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Thickness: 2.10 millimetres
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Width: 72.000 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Jones 2
Mazerolle's theory that this was the medal modelled from life by Dupré in 1607 (see 1) is open to the objection that, judging by the portrait alone, this piece would seem to date from immediately before Dupré left France for Italy in 1612, when Louis was ten or eleven. A similar portrait by Claude Frémy in the Louvre (see 4) is dated 1611.
Bibliography:
1. J Héroard Journal p. 10, 6 June 1607.
2. T.N. Méd. Fr. I pl. 36 no. 4.
3. Mazerolle II no. 665.
4. G. Migeon Catalogue des bronzes au Louvre no. 603.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- From the Sloane Collection.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- M.2189
- C&M catalogue number
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MF2 (Jones 2) (76) (35)
