Honors Accompanying the Reburial of Turenne, 1800

Honors Accompanying the Reburial of Turenne, 1800 by baron Dominique Vivant Denon|Henri Auguste|Paris Mint

Medium

Gilt bronze, struck

Dimensions

Diameter: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

Classification

Medals and Plaquettes

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885

Accession Number

85.2.57

About the Artist

baron Dominique Vivant Denon|Henri Auguste|Paris Mint · 17471825

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747–1825), was a multifaceted French artist, diplomat, and archaeologist whose life bridged the Ancien Régime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire. Born on January 4, 1747, in Givry near Chalon-sur-Saône to a family of minor nobility originally surnamed "de Non," he was sent to Paris at eighteen to study law. Instead, he pursued art, studying painting under Noël Hallé...

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