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Napoléon Bonaparte: Venus de'Medici
Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy (French, 1749–1826)
French
1803
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 40 mm (1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernard Coffin Weld
Accession Number27.23
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
Catalogue Raisonné
Bramsen 280.
Trésor de numismatique 95.9.
Sevres, Manufacture national, Archives, no. 14.
DescriptionCircular medal of Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), first consul of France, commemorating the Venus de'Medici and struck for Napoléon's visit to the Musée Napoléon (16 August 1803).
Obverse: Profile bust of Napoléon looking to proper left; inscribed under bust "JEUFFROY FECT/180[3 or 5]/DENON DIRE.C.D. MUSEE.C.D.ARTS".
Reverse: Venus de Milo at center; inscribed at edge "AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE" and below "L'AN IV DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE".
Obverse: Profile bust of Napoléon looking to proper left; inscribed under bust "JEUFFROY FECT/180[3 or 5]/DENON DIRE.C.D. MUSEE.C.D.ARTS".
Reverse: Venus de Milo at center; inscribed at edge "AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE" and below "L'AN IV DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed under bust "JEUFFROY FECT/180[3 or 5]/DENON DIRE.C.D. MUSEE.C.D.ARTS".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE" and below "L'AN IV DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE" and below "L'AN IV DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE".
ProvenanceBy 1927, Bernard Coffin Weld; 1927, gift of Bernard Coffin Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 6, 1927)