2002.66.4: École Française d'Athènes

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2002.66.4

People

Louis Oscar Roty, French (Paris 1846 - 1911 Paris)

Title

École Française d'Athènes

Classification

Medals and Medallions

Work Type

medal

Date

1898

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/147122

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

5.9 cm diam. (2 5/16 in.)
103.01 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower right of obverse: "O. Roty"
• inscription: obverse, upper center, incised: POUR LA SCIENCE POUR LA PATRIE
• inscription: reverse, incised: [at left:] DAVELUY 1846 / BURNOUF 1867 / DUMONT 1875 / FOUCART / 1878; [at right:] HOMOLLE / 1891; [lower edge:] ECOLE FRANÇAISE D'ATHENES
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

David N. Silich, Gift to Harvard University Art Museum, 5.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Corina and David Silich-von Schulthess in memory of Dr. Leo Mildenberg

Accession Year

2002

Object Number

2002.66.4

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Obverse: Seated classical female figure (Archeologie?) on fluted column, amidst ruins with distant hillsides and houses, holding up a statue of a femalel, a pick axe at her side and vessels at her right;
Reverse: Acropolis above; olive and palm branches wrapped with ribbon from lower left to centre right; a Renaissance-style building with shrubery lower right.

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