Medal of Music Artist: Marie-Alexandre-Lucien Coudray (French, 1864–1932)
Mint: Paris

1899

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

163.53 g, 12:00, 67.3 mm

Credit Line

Gift of William Gilman Thompson, Ph.B. 1877

Accession Number

1928.254

Geography

Made in Paris, France

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: orpheus crowned by olive branches, holding lyre, looking l.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: angel holding trumpet r. and plume l., with scroll in lap, sitting on empty rectangle for engraving. violin bottom. olive branch r.
Provenance
Dr. WIlliam GIlman Thompson, to 1928; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1928; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1928–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Nicolas Maier, French Medallic Art, 1870–1940 (Munich: n.p., 2010), 270, fig. 223
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

Inscriptions

Bronze

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