Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, France, Louis-François-Marc Hilaire de Conzié (1732-1804), Bishop of Arras, a magnificent circular Damascened Copper Plaque, with the portrait gilt and the field silvered, unsigned and un-attributed, bust right wearing fur gown with plain lace collar from which hangs a crucifix, his name engraved around, LOUIS DE CONZIE EVEQUE D'ARRAS, 166mm, within silver border with suspension loop and ring. In high relief and superb style, extremely fine and apparently unpublished.
ex Michael Hall Collection, Baldwin's Auction 64, 4 May 2010, lot 400
Ordained a Priest in 1759, Conzié was elected Bishop of Saint-Omer in 1766 and Bishop of Arras in 1769. It was de Conzié who appointed the youthful Maximilien Robespierre a criminal judge in the Diocese of Arras in March 1782. There is a similarity in style with a medallist known from his signature "Fontaine" who was active c.1769-1771.
Estimate: £5000-7000
ex Michael Hall Collection, Baldwin's Auction 64, 4 May 2010, lot 400
Ordained a Priest in 1759, Conzié was elected Bishop of Saint-Omer in 1766 and Bishop of Arras in 1769. It was de Conzié who appointed the youthful Maximilien Robespierre a criminal judge in the Diocese of Arras in March 1782. There is a similarity in style with a medallist known from his signature "Fontaine" who was active c.1769-1771.
Estimate: £5000-7000