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Napoléon Bonaparte: Battle of the Pyramids
J.-F. Antoine Bovy (Swiss, 1795–1877)
French
1798
Mint: France
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 42 mm (1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernard Coffin Weld
Accession Number27.22
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionCircular medal of Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general in charge of France, commemorating the battle at the Pyramids.
Obverse: Profile bust of Napoléon looking to proper left; inscribed at edge "BONAPARTE GENERAL EN CHEF" and under bust "A.BOVY".
Reverse: Napoléon on horseback before his troops with the pyramids of Cairo in background; inscribed above "SOLDATS! DU HAUT DE CES PYRAMIDES/40 SIECLES NOUS CONTEMPLENT", at proper right "A.BOVY", and in exergue "NAPOLEON EN EGYPTE./25 JUILLET 1798".
Obverse: Profile bust of Napoléon looking to proper left; inscribed at edge "BONAPARTE GENERAL EN CHEF" and under bust "A.BOVY".
Reverse: Napoléon on horseback before his troops with the pyramids of Cairo in background; inscribed above "SOLDATS! DU HAUT DE CES PYRAMIDES/40 SIECLES NOUS CONTEMPLENT", at proper right "A.BOVY", and in exergue "NAPOLEON EN EGYPTE./25 JUILLET 1798".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "BONAPARTE GENERAL EN CHEF" and under bust "A.BOVY".
Reverse: Inscribed above "SOLDATS! DU HAUT DE CES PYRAMIDES/40 SIECLES NOUS CONTEMPLENT", at proper right "A.BOVY", and in exergue "NAPOLEON EN EGYPTE./25 JUILLET 1798".
Reverse: Inscribed above "SOLDATS! DU HAUT DE CES PYRAMIDES/40 SIECLES NOUS CONTEMPLENT", at proper right "A.BOVY", and in exergue "NAPOLEON EN EGYPTE./25 JUILLET 1798".
ProvenanceBy 1927, Bernard Coffin Weld; 1927, gift of Bernard Coffin Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 6, 1927)