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Aanslag op het leven van Willem III door sir George Barclay

Nicolas Chevalier

1696

Medium

striking (metalworking)

Dimensions

d 2.6cm × w 7.79g

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

copper (metal)

Object Type

history medal

Production Place

Amsterdam

Acquisition Method

gift

Acquired

1885

Notes

Gift of J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff

About Nicolas Chevalier

1828–1902 • United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandSwitzerland

Born in May 1828 of a Swiss father and a Russian mother. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres (1976) mentions that Chevalier left Saint Petersburg, Russia, for Lausanne, Switzerland, at the age of 17; Thieme-Becker mentions that from 1845 he was living in Lausanne.