Medal of Battle of Yzer | Yale University Art Gallery

1916

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 151.07 g, 12:00, 68 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Reverend George Stewart, B.A.1915, LL.B. 1917, Ph.D. 1921, Hon. DD. 1939
Accession Number: 1928.258
Geography: Made in Paris, France
Culture: French
Period: 20th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: BATAILLE DE L'YZER woman center in military uniform and skirt, cockfight and weapons below, r. rooster victorious, man l. leaning back with r. hand over eyes, four men with bayonets behind, three men r. advance with bayonets out of scene

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: AMIRAL RONARCH l. frontal half portrait decorated with three medals GENERAL FOCH r. half portrait with general's jacket, olive branch center and oak branches to sides

Provenance

Reverend George Stewart, to April 13, 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

medals

Inscriptions

BRONZE

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