The French medallist Daniel Dupuis, from Blois, left behind an impressive oeuvre of some 350 medals. He died in a dramatic way. His younger, nervous wife was obsessed with the idea of dying before her husband did and on 14 November 1899 she killed him in his sleep with a gunshot and then committed suicide with the same weapon. Posthumously, many more of Dupuis' designs were realised in medals. The museum in his hometown has an almost complete collection of his work. This medal, with Marianne on the obverse, was issued on the initiative of the Paris Mint in order to be sold to all kinds of associations and institutions, whereby an appropriate text could be engraved on the reverse.
| Artist |
Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis
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Henri Alfred Dubois
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Monnaie de Paris
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| Title | The French Republic |
| Date | 1891 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location |
France
TGN
Paris TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | inscription and signature at the front, along the edge: DANIEL DUPUIS |
| signatures (names) below: H. DUBOIS | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type | commemorative medals AAT |
| Inventory number | 1909-OO |
| Acquisition credit |
onbekend 1909 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-OO |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3777/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3778/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300055865 symbolism (artistic concept) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A72
female sex; woman
Iconclass
31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 43A433 crowning with laurel Iconclass 44A51(MARIANNE) personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc. (MARIANNE) Iconclass 480 symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ art; 'Arte' (Ripa) Iconclass 61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
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