Portrait medallions

Unknown

ca. 1782 · Gilt bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Depicting the French King Louis XVI (1754-1793) and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), these portraits are adaptations of medals by Benjamin Duvivier (1730-1819) of 1781 and may have derived from an engraving after the artist. The technical and stylistic similarities between goldsmiths’ work and that in gilt bronze are seldom as apparent as in this mount.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1782

Medium

Gilt bronze

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906