fjt_530224 - FRENCH ROYAL ACADEMY OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture n.d.
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Type : Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
Date: n.d.
Metal : bell metal
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 20,19 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUDOVIC. XVI. FRANC. ET. NAVAR. REX.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Louis XVI, signé DU VIVIER.
Obverse translation : Louis XVI, roi des Francs et de Navarre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : MENTEM - FURATUS OLYMPO ; À L’EXERGUE : PRÆM. IN ACAD. REG. PICT. ET. SCULPT. PAR..
Reverse description : Génie ailé debout tenant un rouleau et une plume. Sur le sol, des instruments de peinture et de sculpture dont un rouleau signé D.V.
Reverse translation : Il tient son intelligence de l’Olympe ; à l’exergue : prix de l’académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Commentary
Ce jeton en métal de cloche de la période révolutionnaire a dû être remis au(x) “ meilleur(s) ” membre(s) de l’académie de peinture et de sculpture. Il s’agit d’une fabrication artisanale certainement rendue nécessaire par l’impossibilité de procéder à des frappes normales en argent.
Cet exemplaire, de remarquable qualité confirme celui présenté dans JETONS 22, n° 627, dont le moulage était largement plus grossier et médiocre.
This metal bell token from the revolutionary period must have been awarded to the “best” member(s) of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. It is a handcrafted product, certainly made necessary by the impossibility of carrying out normal silver strikes. This example, of remarkable quality, confirms that presented in JETONS 22, no. 627, whose casting was much cruder and poorer.
Cet exemplaire, de remarquable qualité confirme celui présenté dans JETONS 22, n° 627, dont le moulage était largement plus grossier et médiocre.
This metal bell token from the revolutionary period must have been awarded to the “best” member(s) of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. It is a handcrafted product, certainly made necessary by the impossibility of carrying out normal silver strikes. This example, of remarkable quality, confirms that presented in JETONS 22, no. 627, whose casting was much cruder and poorer.
Historical background
FRENCH ROYAL ACADEMY OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, responsible for training future painters and sculptors, was established in 1648 on the initiative of a group of artists, including Philippe de Champaigne, Sébastien Bourdon, Charles Le Brun, or again Juste d'Egmont, supported by Mazarin himself, in order to counteract the influence of the guilds of Saint-Luc, and to formalize the distinction between the noble arts and the so-called "mechanical" arts. By favoring artists in this way, the Académie, established in the Louvre in 1656, immediately subscribed to the prestige policy of the monarchy and to the idea of the Grand Siècle, to which it provided numerous references. Its motto is "Libertas artibus restituta". Some famous names have written the greatness of the Academy: Jacques Firmin, Beauvarlet, Philippe de Champaigne, Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas de Largillière, Charles Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Dominique Vivant Denon , etc. Recommended reading: VITET L., "The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture", Paris, 1861.
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