Baldwin & Sons
Argentum Auction Fall 2013 2 November 2013
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WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. AUSTRIA AND HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. Art, Léonce Bénédite (1856-1925), French art historian, Bronze Tribute Medal, c.1912, by Heinrich Kautsch (1859-1943), bust left, rev face reflected in hand-mirror, quill and olive spray, VERITE ET BEAUTE, 79mm, softly sculpted; Rembrandt, Tercentenary 1906, Silver Medal, by R Mayer, bust three-quarters right wearing soft cap, rev young female artist, naked, stands before windmill, edge SILBER 950; Georg Rafael Donner (1693-1741), sculptor, bicentenary, 1893, Bronze Medal, by Prof Stefan Schwartz, the sculptor at work, to right, rev monument and legend, 69mm; Society for the Advancement of Medallic Art, 1902-1920, Bronze Medal, by Josef Unterholzer, 69.5mm; Bronze Prize Medal of Pallas Athena, 55mm. Generally very fine and better. (5)
Georg Rafael Donner (1693-1741) was one of Austria's most prolific sculptors of the baroque period; Léonce Bénédite was director of the Musée du Luxembourg and later the first curator of the Musée Rodin. The same design is also found on a plaquette.
Estimate: £80-120
Georg Rafael Donner (1693-1741) was one of Austria's most prolific sculptors of the baroque period; Léonce Bénédite was director of the Musée du Luxembourg and later the first curator of the Musée Rodin. The same design is also found on a plaquette.
Estimate: £80-120