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January 2014 NYINC Auction - Sess. C-D 13 January 2014
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FRANCE. 100th Birthday of Michel Eugene Chevreul, Chemist, 1886.
68mm silver, by Roty. Maier 93. Obverse: Portrait. Reverse: The goddess of French Youth presents the old professor, mercifully allowed to be seated, with a laurel wreath. Chevreul was an important academician, but in 1886 the most remarkable thing about anyone would have been a birth year of 1786. Roty's mastery of portraiture is in full evidence. As for his influence in the USA, the reverse slightly recalls St. Gaudens' monument (ca1905) of a seated Peter Cooper at 7th Street and the Bowery, which this cataloger walks past three times a week. Tarnish on shoulder; slight graze behind head; otherwise MINT STATE.
68mm silver, by Roty. Maier 93. Obverse: Portrait. Reverse: The goddess of French Youth presents the old professor, mercifully allowed to be seated, with a laurel wreath. Chevreul was an important academician, but in 1886 the most remarkable thing about anyone would have been a birth year of 1786. Roty's mastery of portraiture is in full evidence. As for his influence in the USA, the reverse slightly recalls St. Gaudens' monument (ca1905) of a seated Peter Cooper at 7th Street and the Bowery, which this cataloger walks past three times a week. Tarnish on shoulder; slight graze behind head; otherwise MINT STATE.