Live auction - fjt_1167524 - FRENCH ROYAL ACADEMY OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture 1764
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Live starting : Type : Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
Date: 1764
Metal : copper
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 11,30 g.
Edge : cannelée
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Patine marron avec de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de coups et rayures
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection Henri Labouret
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUDOVICUS XVI. ARTIUM PARENS..
Obverse description : Buste à gauche de Louis XVI, signé DU VIVIER, type Guéant Prieur 716D.
Obverse translation : Louis XVI, père des Arts.
Reverse
Reverse legend : AMICÆ QUAMVIS ÆMULÆ ; À L’EXERGUE : ACAD. ROYALE DE PEINT. ET DE SCULPT 1764..
Reverse description : La peinture et la sculpture se tenant la main.
Reverse translation : A la fois amis et émules.
Commentary
Le jeton ne date évidemment pas de 1764. Il doit plutôt dater de la fin des années 1770. C’est cet exemplaire qui illustre le type dans le Guéant Prieur.
The token obviously does not date from 1764. It must rather date from the end of the 1770s. It is this example which illustrates the type in the Guéant Prieur
The token obviously does not date from 1764. It must rather date from the end of the 1770s. It is this example which illustrates the type in the Guéant Prieur
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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