The Cholera Epidemics of 1849 and 1854 [reverse], 1854

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 8.75 cm (3 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mark and Lynne Hammerschlag in honor of Nicholas Penny

Accession Number

2008.113.2.b

Artists / Makers

Joseph-Pierre Braemt (artist) Belgian, 1796 - 1864

Image Use

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Inscription

around top circumference: AU MAGISTRAT DÉVOUÉ LES HABITANS DE LA CAPITALE RECONNAISSANTS (to the devoted magistrate, the grateful inhabitants of the capital) / SOUSCRIPTION OUVERTE PAR LE CERCLE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE (subscription opened by the artistic and literary circle); in exergue: ZÉLE INFATIGABLE / PENDANT L'INVASION DU CHOLERA / 1849 - 1854 (indefatigable zeal during the cholera invasion, 1849 to 1854); on exergual line: BRAEMT INV.ET SC. (Braemt invented and engraved this)

Provenance

(David and Constance Yates, New York); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Yates, David and Constance

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2009-2010, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1918: Weber, Frederick Parkes. Aspects of Death and Correlated Aspects of Life in Art, Epigram, and Poetry. Contributions Towards an Anthology and an Iconography of the Subject. Illustrated especially by medals, engraved gems, jewels, ivories, antique pottery, &c. London, 1918: 570.