This plaque was issued by the Monnaie de Paris after the tragic death of the artist Daniel Dupuis in November 1899. It was exhibited at the Salon de la Medaille at the Brussels World Fair in 1910. The obverse shows a naked woman looking at a nest in a tree with two little birds on the left. On the back, a child is depicted sitting on the branches of a tree, feeding a little bird.
| Artist |
Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis
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Monnaie de Paris
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| Title | The Nest |
| Date | 1900 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Paris TGN |
| Medium and support | striking (metalworking) AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | title and signature below: DANIEL DUPUIS ; LE NID ; |
| signatures (names) reverse, bottom right: DANIEL-DUPUIS | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type | plaques (flat objects) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1909-F-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Monnaie de Paris Paris 1909 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-F-1 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8174/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F3
birds
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25G3 trees Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass |
| Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles en 1910 : Salon international de la médaille contemporaine... : Groupe II: Beaux-Arts ; Classe 9B: Gravure en médailles (Bruxelles, Palais du Cinquantenaire, 01.05 - 15.11.1910) ; Catalogue / Victor Tourneur. - Bruxelles : Imprimerie A. Lesigne, 1910 (p. 87, nr. 144, vitrine II,C, nr. 140) |
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