Portrait medallions ca. 1782 French Depicting the French King Louis XVI (1754-1793) and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), these portraits are adaptations of medals by Benjamin Duvivier (1730-1819) of 1781 and may have derived from an engraving after the artist. The technical and stylistic similarities between goldsmiths’ work and that in gilt bronze are seldom as apparent as in this Portrait medallions 190072 French, Portrait medallions, ca. 1782, Gilt bronze, Overall (confirmed): 4 1/4 ? 7 1/4 in. ( ? cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierp
Portrait medallions ca. 1782 French Depicting the French King Louis XVI (1754-1793) and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), these portraits are adaptations of medals by Benjamin Duvivier (1730-1819) of 1781 and may have derived from an engraving after the artist. The technical and stylistic similarities between goldsmiths’ work and that in gilt bronze are seldom as apparent as in this Portrait medallions 190072 French, Portrait medallions, ca. 1782, Gilt bronze, Overall (confirmed): 4 1/4 ? 7 1/4 in. ( ? cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 ()
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