FRANCE
Maria de' Medici and her children (1610-1617)
Bronze medal, by G. Dupré, c.1625, 49.54g, 52mm (without suspension ring), bustof Maria de' Medici right, MARIA AVG. GALL. ET NAVAR. REGIN (retrograde), rev. Maria as Cybele, with a lion, amongst her children as deities, Louis XIII as Jupiter, Henriette as Amphitrite, Christine as Diane, Élisabeth as Juno and Gaston as Hercules, LÆTA DEVM PARTV in exergue (Jones II 61 ; Mazerolle II 693)
PROVENANCE: Dupriez
Later cast, suspension ring soldered, traces of verdigris, very fine.