Live auction - fme_1123109 - SECOND EMPIRE Médaille, Alexander von Humboldt
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| Estimate : | 400 € |
| Price : | no bid |
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| End of the sale : | 25 August 2026 19:27:55 |
Type : Médaille, Alexander von Humboldt
Date: 1859
Metal : tin
Diameter : 75 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver BOVY Antoine (1795-1877)
Weight : 176,18 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène irisée, avec des traces d’usure, rayures et taches d’oxydation. Coups sur les deux faces et la tranche. Des reflets au niveau de la légende
Obverse
Obverse legend : ALEXANDRE DE HUMBOLDT NE A BERLIN LE 14 SEPT.E 1769 TRENTE JOURS APRES NAPOLEON 1.ER MORT A BERLIN LE 6 MAI 1859 // SURNOMME - L’ARISTOTE MODERNE.
Obverse description : Tête nue de profil à gauche. Signé : A. BOVY.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DOYEN DES ASSOCIES DE L’INSTITUT DE FRANCE. LE PLUS GRAND SAVANT DU SIECLE. CREATEUR DE LA PHYSIQUE GENERALE DU GLOBE // 1.RE PERIODE, 1780 - 1797 / SONDE TOUTES LES GRANDES / CATEGORIES DE LA SCIENCE / HUMAINE ET CREE PARTOUT / - / 2.EME PERIODE 1797 - 1804 / EXPLORE LE NOUVEAU MONDE / ET CHAINES DES VOLCANS / VOYAGE IMMORTEL / - / 3.EME PERIODE 1805-1827 / 22 ANS DE SEJOUR A PARIS / PUBLICATION DE LA MAGNIFIQUE SERIE / DE SES TRAVAUX EN SEPT PARTIES / - / 4.EME PERIODE 1827 - 1845 / SE FIXE A BERLIN EN 1829 A L’AGE DE 60 ANS / EXPLORE L’ASIE CENTRALE ET JETTE UN GRAND / JOUR SUR SA DISTRIBUTION GEOGRAPHIQUE. / - / 5.EME PERIODE 1845 - 1858 / A L’AGE DE 76 ANS LIVRE LE 1.ER VOLUME / ET A L’AGE DE 89 ANS LE 4.EME VOLUME / DU COSMOS / REVUE DES CONNAISSANCES HUMAINES / SUR LE CIEL ET SUR LA TERRE / MONUMENTUM AERE PERRENNIUS / - / STATUE ELEVEE A LA MEMOIRE AU / MUSEE DE VERSAILLES PAR DECRET / DE L’EMPEREUR NAPOLEON III / DU 10 MAI 1859.
Reverse description : Dans un ouroboros, inscription en vingt sept lignes. Signé : MASSONET EDIT..
Commentary
Alexander von Humboldt, parfois aussi nommé Alexandre de Humboldt ou Friedrich Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander, baron von Humboldt, est un naturaliste, géographe et explorateur allemand né le 14 septembre 1769 à Berlin et mort le 6 mai 1859 dans cette même ville..
Historical background
SECOND EMPIRE
(2/12/1852-4/09/1870)
Napoleon III bareheaded
The Empire was proclaimed on December 2, 1852 and Napoleon III married Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920) on January 29, 1853. Haussmann was appointed Prefect of the Seine on June 23, 1853 with a major urban planning project for the capital. France declared war on Russia on March 27, 1854, the start of the Crimean War. The French, allied with the English and the Turks, won the victory of Alma on September 20 and, on September 26, laid siege to Sevastopol, which fell on September 10, 1855. The Universal Exhibition in Paris began on May 15, 1855 and hosts 20,000 exhibitors and 5 million visitors. The Treaty of Paris of March 30, 1856 put an end to the Crimean War, the very year in which the Prince Imperial was born. The railway networks are reorganized and redistributed between the Péreire brothers and the Rothschilds. The publications of "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert and "Fleurs du mal" by Baudelaire in 1857 lead to their respective convictions for outrages against good morals.
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