This medal, designed by French medallist Hubert Ponscarme, is marked in the history of medal art as the starting point of a major innovation. With the increasing popularity of the reduction bench and the use of a modified patina, not only stamp cutters but now sculptors could also produce medals. That is why this medal was centrally presented at the Salon de la Médaille during the 1910 World Fair in Brussels. It also appears as the only piece on the cover of the Salon's catalogue. The portrayed, Joseph Naudet (1786-1878) was a French historian, teacher, librarian and writer.
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Hubert Ponscarme
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Monnaie de Paris
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| Title | Medal Portraying Joseph Naudet |
| Date | 1867 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | name on the front side: JOSEPHVS ; rechts, NAVDET ; onder de hals, PONSCARME.F |
| text on the reverse: IOSEPHO . NAVDET / OB . ANNOS . QUINQVAGINTA / A . COOPTATIONE . EIVS / IN . ACAD . INSCRIPTIONVM / HVMANIORVMQ . LITTERARVM / GNAVITER . EXACTOS / SODALI . OPTIMO . SODALES / D . D / --- / MDCCCLXVII / --- | |
| Collection | medals AAT |
| Object type | portrait medal |
| Inventory number | 1911-CX |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
Société Gantoise des Amis de la Médaille Ghent 1911 |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-CX |
| IIIF Manifest |
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7757/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7758/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A71
male sex; man
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31D16 old man Iconclass 48C91 writer, poet, author Iconclass 48C93 portrait of a writer Iconclass 49K10 'Historia'; 'Historia' (Ripa) Iconclass 6 History Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(JOSEPH NAUDET) historical person (JOSEPH NAUDET) 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. 110, nr. 181 (45)) |
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