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FRANCE, Union des Sociétés d'Instruction Militaire de France, 1888 [struck 1902+], a..
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FRANCE, Union des Sociétés d’Instruction Militaire de France, 1888 [struck 1902+], a plated bronze medal by H.-A.-A. Dubois after F. Rude for Arthus-Bertrand & Béranger, female seated to right under a tree, watching troops engaged in rifle practice, rev. figures representing the Republic being urged into battle against the background of a brick wall, edge impressed bronze couble and with foundry mark of Arthus-Bertrand, 68mm, 167.81g (BM Acq. 1983-7, pl. 38, 58; cf. Peus e13, 79; cf. Höhn e17, 4640; cf. Noonans 275, 2293). Extremely fine; in red fitted case of issue by Arthus Bertrand & Béranger, 24 rue Hauteville, Paris
£50-£70
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Provenance: Bt A.C. Eimer June 2014.
The Départ des volontaires de 1792 (Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), also known as La Marseillaise, was completed by Rude in 1836 for the Arc de Triomphe and is his most famous work. It depicts a French revolutionary army preparing to fight against a coalition of royalist forces at the Battle of Valmy in 1792. Sophie Fremiet, Rude's wife, posed for the principal figure, the génie de la guerre (Genius of the War), urging troops to battle
FRANCE, Union des Sociétés d’Instruction Militaire de France, 1888 [struck 1902+], a plated bronze medal by H.-A.-A. Dubois after F. Rude for Arthus-Bertrand & Béranger, female seated to right under a tree, watching troops engaged in rifle practice, rev. figures representing the Republic being urged into battle against the background of a brick wall, edge impressed bronze couble and with foundry mark of Arthus-Bertrand, 68mm, 167.81g (BM Acq. 1983-7, pl. 38, 58; cf. Peus e13, 79; cf. Höhn e17, 4640; cf. Noonans 275, 2293). Extremely fine; in red fitted case of issue by Arthus Bertrand & Béranger, 24 rue Hauteville, Paris
£50-£70
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Provenance: Bt A.C. Eimer June 2014.
The Départ des volontaires de 1792 (Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), also known as La Marseillaise, was completed by Rude in 1836 for the Arc de Triomphe and is his most famous work. It depicts a French revolutionary army preparing to fight against a coalition of royalist forces at the Battle of Valmy in 1792. Sophie Fremiet, Rude's wife, posed for the principal figure, the génie de la guerre (Genius of the War), urging troops to battle
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