SculptureFrench19th century
Theodore Géricault (1791-1824)
1830
Artists
Pierre-Jean David d'AngersArtist
Dimensions
15 cm diam. (5 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Mr. James W. Fowle, Thetford Hill, VT, Purchased, 1948, Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1990. See curatorial file, where donor notes he bought this medallion in a shop on Boulevard Raspail, Paris, in the winter of 1948.
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