Live auction - fme_1048051 - LOUIS XVI Médaille, Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette
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Live starting : Type : Médaille, Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette
Date: 1781
Metal : copper
Diameter : 74 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DUVIVIER Benjamin (1730-1819)
Weight : 168,74 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Belle patine marron, légèrement irisée, présentant quelques coups et fines rayures. Beaux reliefs malgré quelques points d’usure
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LUDOVICUS XVI - FRANC. ET NAV. REX.
Obverse description : Buste à droite à droite avec tête et cou nus, cheveux très longs relevés sur le front et les tempes, roulés sur les côtés en trois boucles et retombant en boudins sur l’épaule et dans le dos ; un manteau doublé de fourrure et bordé d’une broderie formant draperie, signé : DU VIVIER F..
Reverse
Reverse legend : MAR. ANTON. AUSTR. FRANCIAE - ET NAVARR. REGINA.
Reverse description : Buste de Marie-Antoinette de profil à gauche, tête et col nus, la haute coiffure, ornée de rubans, de trois plumes d’autruche, d’un diadème, d’un rang de perles et d’un “bandeau d’amour” ; une boucle volumineuse pend à l’oreille ; riche costume brodé et gemmé, très décolleté : double collier de perles avec médaillon : manteau fourré et brodé de fleurs de lis agrafé sur l’épaule par un joyau et formant draperie. Signé : DUVIVIER 1781.
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
After the days of October 5 and 6, 1789, the Parisians brought back from Versailles to Paris, "the baker, the baker and the little baker" (royal family) who settled in the Tuileries. On November 2, 1789, the property of the Church was nationalized. The kingdom is divided into 83 departments in December. On April 17, 1790, the assignat became paper money and became legal tender, then forced tender from September. The property of the clergy is put up for sale as "national property". On June 19, titles and nobility are abolished. On July 12, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy is voted. The Federation Day, July 14, seems to mark the end of the Revolution and symbolizes what unites the King, the kingdom and the people. Mirabeau died on April 12, 1791. The passage of the Le Chapelier law prohibited corporations, associations and professional unions and suppressed the right to strike. The King was arrested in Varennes on June 22 while trying to escape. La Fayette had the crowd fired at the Champ de Mars on July 17, 1791. On September 3, the Legislative Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly, which separated. The King takes an oath to the Nation.
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