Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, Intendant des Invalides

Jean-Baptiste Nini

1771 (?) · Composition, blackish gray; gilt wood frame · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

In a technique of his own invention, Nini refined the local clay through a process of elutriation and used it to cast his medallions from finely engraved copper molds.

Artist

Jean-Baptiste Nini

Date

1771 (?)

Medium

Composition, blackish gray; gilt wood frame

Culture

French, Chaumont-sur-Loire

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1952