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Personifications of Trust and Industry in a Landscape [reverse]

1900

Louis-Oscar Roty

Artist, French, 1846 - 1911

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Artwork overview

Medium

silver
Credit Line

Gift of David and Constance Yates
Dimensions

overall (diameter): 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
Accession

2004.49.1.b

Centennial of the Bank of France, 1800-1900 [obverse]

Louis-Oscar Roty

1900

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David and Constance Yates, New York); gift 2004 to NGA.

Associated Names

David and Constance Yates

Bibliography

2009

Parshall, Peter, et al. The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900. Exh. cat., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Washington, D.C., 2009: 147.

Inscriptions

around circumference: CONFIANCE ET TRAVAIL; in exergue: PAUL LEROY-BEAULIEU

Wikidata ID

Q63864225

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