ART MEDALS, Société des Amis de la Médaille Française, 1899-1920, Jeunes Aveugles (Blind Children), Bronze Plaquette, 1903, by Hippolyte Lefebvre, blind women and children sitting together, one playing a zither, rev young blind girl with guide dog, knocks at the door of the Insitution de Jeunes Aveugles, 69mm x 80mm (Maier 18). Extremely fine.
the plaquette is numbered 164, from an SAMF issue of just 240
Lefebvre's scuplture Jeunes Aveugles on which the obverse of this plaquette is based won him the medal of honour after he exhibited it at the Salon in 1902.
Estimate: £300-350