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France - 1803

La Venus de Medicis

Obverse:

Head of Napoleon.

Exergue:

JEUFFROY FECIT 1803. DENON DIR. G.D. MUSÉE C. D. ARTS

Size:

40 mm.

Reverse:

the antique statue of the Venus de Medicis.

Legend:

AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE. L'AN IV DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE.

Laskey:

Amongst the various projects of Napoleon to attract the attention of the Parisian populace, and the admiration of the world, was that of professing to pay great attention to the arts, and of giving a great facility to the examination of the valuable remnants of antiquity and art which he had possessed himself of from the various European powers; by this means he amused and delighted the Parisians by a pompous arrangement of the pictures and statues, thereby rendering it necessary that all those who wished to examine and study from the chefs d'oeuvre of art, should perform those studies at Paris. - See medals, Nos. 31 and 32.

Note. - This beautiful medal was struck under the direction of M. Denon, keeper of the medals in the Musée Française, and presented to Bonaparte on his visiting the Museum; it is engraved in the 4th vol. of the Musée Française as a vignette to the article Venus de Medicis.

Bramsen:

Bramsen - 280
La Vénus de Médicis (Jeuffroy.)

Tête de Napoléon, à droite.

Rev: AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE. La statue de la Vénus de Médicis, à gauche.

Dessous: JEUFFROY FECIT 1803.

Au-dessous: L'AN IV DU CONSULAT DE BONAPARTE.

En bas: DENON DIR. G. D. MUSEE C. D'ARTS.

Médaille, 40 mm. - T. N. 95, 9; H. m. 30, 70; M. F. 345, 146.

Cette médaille fut présentée par Denon, directeur général du Musée central des arts, à Napoléon, lors de sa visite au Muséum.

d'Essling:

d'Essling - 1001
Visite de Bonaparte au Muséum (Jeuffroy).

Buste de Bonaparte à dr.

R. AUX ARTS LA VICTOIRE. Statue de la Vénus de Médicis.

(TN. 95.9 - M. 70 - B. 280) Or, 41 mm.