1878 PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION FRENCH ART BRONZE MEDAL by CHAPLAIN

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Seller: fabrice59 ✉️ (17,279) 99.8%, Location: Tourcoing, FR, Ships to: AMERICAS, EUROPE, ASIA, AU, Item: 386884202463 1878 PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION FRENCH ART BRONZE MEDAL by CHAPLAIN. Obverse :  Chaplain depicts a stately Marianne with an olive branch in her hair, symbolizing the stable and peace-loving government of the Third Republic that had only recently been established after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Reverse : a winged figure of Fame in revealingly clingy drapery carries a laurel wreath and a trumpet, and with a boy winged genius by her side hovers over the grounds of the 1878 Universal Exposition in Paris. At right is the Palais du Trocadéro, and at left on the opposite side of the Seine are the buildings on the Champ de Mars.  Awarded to exhibitor "A. GOIN" Diameter : 68 m m or 2,65 inches Weight : 139 grams Metal :  bronze, bee foundry mark from the Paris Mint (in use before 1880) Jules-Clément Chaplain, together with Daniel-Dupuis and Roty, is considered one of the leaders of the revival of medallic art during the Art Nouveau era. 

Jules-Clément Chaplain (12 July 1839 – 13 July 1909) was a French sculptor and one of its finest medallists. With Louis Oscar Roty (1846–1911) he helped found the Art Nouveau movement.

Chaplain was born in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, and in 1857 entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he studied sculpture under François Jouffroy and medals under Eugène Oudiné. In 1863, he won the Prix de Rome for medal-engraving and worked in Rome 1864–1868. He exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1863, receiving numerous awards, and in 1869 returned to Paris where he found official success almost immediately. In 1877 he was named official medallist of the French government, in 1878 a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and in 1881 appointed to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1896 he became Art Director of the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres in 1900 a Commander of the Légion d'honneur.

Chaplain was responsible for the official portraits of every president of the French Republic from Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, in 1877 to Émile Loubet in 1899. He also received the commission for engraving the gold coinage of France, and his official gold medal commemorating the 1896 visit of Czar Nicholas II of Russia was called "a masterpiece and one of the finest ever struck."

  • Condition: See pictures, fine condition #143
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
  • Brand: Paris Mint
  • Type: Medal
  • Composition: Bronze
  • Fineness: 0.999
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: France

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