Medal Commemorating Philip the Good Artist: Adolphe Christian Jouvenel (Belgian, 1798–1867)

ca. 1850

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

46 g, 46.6 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Irving Dillaye-Vann, B.A. 1897

Accession Number

2001.87.29335

Geography

Made in Belgium

Culture

Belgian

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: PHILIPPE-LE-BON NE EN 1396 MORT EN 1467 Bust, r. Jouvenel.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: VERITABLE FONDATEUR DE LA NATIONALITE BELGE, IL REUNIT LA PLUPART DES PROVINCES AUTREFOIS DIVISEES ET LES RENDIT PRESQUE SOLIDAIRES. SON LONG REGNE FUT UNE EPOQUE DE PUISSANCE ET DE GLOIRE DANS TOUS LES GENRES. 1419 IL SUCCEDE A SON PERE JEAN SNAS PEUR ET SE LIGUE AVEC LES ANGLAIS POUR VENGER SA MORT. GUERRE CONTRE CHARLES VII. 1421 REUNION DU COMTE DE NAMUR. 1428 TRAITE DE DEIFT QUI LUI ASSURE LE HAINAUT. LA HOLLANDE ET LA FRISE. 1430 REUNION DU BRABANT ET DU LIMBOURG, INSTITUTION DE L'ORDRE DE LA TOOISON D'OR. 1435 TRAITE D'ARRAS PAIX AVEC CHARLES VII. 1433 CHATIMENT DES BRUGEOIS. 1444 REUNION DE LUXEMBOURG. 1453 DEFAITE DES GANTOIS A GAVRE. 1454 VOEU DU FAISAN A LILLE. 1466 SAC DE DINANT.
Provenance
Irving Dillaye-Van, to about 1938; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1938–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

Inscriptions

50

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