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Plaque Medal Portraying an Aged Couple, 1896

  • engraving (printing process), silver (metal)
  • Inv. 1911-AM

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This plaque depicts a double portrait of an elderly couple. In the foreground you see an elderly man with moustache, head turned to the left, and behind him an elderly woman with a cloth cap on her head, also with head turned to the left.

Artist

Leon Julien Deschamps Wikidata RKD
Paris 1860 - Moûtiers 1920
medalistsAAT

Title Plaque Medal Portraying an Aged Couple
Date 1896
Location France TGN
Medium and support engraving (printing process) AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year below: Léon Deschamps 1896
Collection medals AAT
Object type plaques (flat objects) AAT
Inventory number 1911-AM
Acquisition credit gift
Société Gantoise des Amis de la Médaille
1911-06-23
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-AM
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7737/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D16 old man Iconclass
31D17 old woman Iconclass
41D221(CAP) head-gear: cap Iconclass
42D3 marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium' Iconclass
61B113 anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait Iconclass
61B2 historical persons Iconclass
61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman 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. 97)
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