Bronze Plaquette from Belgium of À l'Aube de la Victoire Artist: Godefroid Devreese (Belgian, 1861–1941)

1920

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze Gilt (?)

Dimensions

55.4 mm height × 70.5 mm width: 83.69 g

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Dr. William Gilman Thompson, Ph.B. 1877

Accession Number

2001.87.26522

Geography

Made in Belgium

Culture

Belgian

Period

20th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: À L'AUBE DE LA VICTOIRE on border bottom r. with artist's name bottom l., old man in tattered jacket and pants, short hair and mustache, barefoot, wrapping l. arm around shoulders of young girl in long-sleeved knee-length dress with skinny legs and short hair placing l. hand on man's l. knee, both sitting on bench foreground r., bench on side of road, road curves to background l. horizon, sun l. horizon, barren landscape

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: NOTRE ANGOISSE N'EST PLUS QU'UN RÊVE, / O CHER ENGANT DE MON ENFANT; / CE SOLEIL QUI DORE LA GRÈVE / C'EST LA VICTOIRE QUI SE LÈVE / D'UN GRAND COUP D'AILE TRIOMPHANT! signed VALÈRE GILLE all written in script aligned l., monogram AM top l. corner, all encircled by border with bottom edge thicker than other three sides
Provenance
Dr. WIlliam GIlman Thompson, to about 1928; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., about 1928; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1928–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

plaquettes

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