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Mathias-Nicholas-Marie Vivier

Robert-Joseph Pothier, 1699-1772, Jurist and Professor [obverse], 1823

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Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
gross weight: 65.3 gr (0.144 lb.)
axis: 12:00

Credit Line

Gift of Lisa Unger Baskin

Accession Number

2002.146.18.a

Artists / Makers

Mathias-Nicholas-Marie Vivier (medalist) French, 1788 - c. 1859

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Inscription

on the truncation: VIVIER F.; around circumference: R.J.POTHIER.NAT.AURELIAE.M.DC.XCIX.OB.M.DCC.LXXII; below the bust: DUMAREILLE EDIDIT

Provenance

Purchased c. 1960/1985 by Lisa and Leonard Baskin, Leeds, Massachusetts; gift 2002 to NGA.

Associated Names

Baskin, Lisa

Bibliography

2007: Pollard, John Graham. Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. 2 vols. Washington, 2007: 2:no. 895, repro.

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