Plaque Medal Portraying Prince Leopold of Belgium

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Frantz Vermeylen (medalists)
,
Alphonse Michaux (workshop / studio)

Date

1910

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
This plaque portrays Prince Leopold of Belgium, the future King Leopold III, at the age of ten. The society of medal friends had the plaque engraved by Franz Vermeylen. It was distributed to the members in January 1911 and 56 silver and 368 bronze examples were struck. On the reverse side, a toddler is depicted kissing Brussels.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Frantz Vermeylen RKD Wikidata, Alphonse Michaux
Type plaques (flat objects) AAT
Category medals
Material bronze
Dimensions 63.2 x 43.2 mm
Object number 1911-O
Description
Subject figures (representations)
Tags boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass, Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass, prince Iconclass, historical person (LEOPOLD III) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-O
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3699/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1911-O
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