The French Republic
Artist(s) / maker(s)
Monnaie de Paris (workshop / studio),
Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis (medalists)
,
Henri Alfred Dubois (medalists)
Date
1891Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
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…
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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.
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