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France - 1804

Le Musée Napoléon, Salle de l'Apollon

Obverse:

Head of Bonaparte, encircled with a laurel wreath.

Exergue:

Under the head, ANDRIEU F.

Size:

31 mm.

Reverse:

a beautiful perspective view of the Hall in the Musée Française, appropriated for the reception of the Apollo Belvidere and other statues, the spoliation of Italy; over the portal, a small head of Napoleon. On the pediment of the arch of the entrance, SALLE DE L'APOLLON.
Above the exergue: DENON DIREX. ANDRIEU F.

Exergue:

MUSÉE NAPOLÉON.

Vern's Comments:

The main difference between Bramsen 370 and 371 is the order of the wording on the bar of the exergue on the reverse. Also this variant is a full 3 mm smaller than 370. The Edwards definition is obviously the larger medal but I went ahead and included it here as well.

Laskey:

No. XXXI.
LE MUSEE NAPOLEON, SALLE DE L'APOLLON.

Obverse - Head of Bonaparte, encircled with a laurel wreath. Under the head, ANDRIEU F.
Reverse - a beautiful perspective view of the Hall in the Musée Française, appropriated for the reception of the Apollo Belvidere and other statues, the spoliation of Italy; over the portal, a small head of Napoleon. On the pediment of the arch of the entrance, SALLE DE L'APOLLON. Exergue, MUSÉE NAPOLEON. ANDRIEU F. DENON D. Size, 1 5/16 inches.

Edwards:

Edwards - 67

Plate V. No. 6

31st December, 1804.

Medal.

Head of Napoleon.

Napoleon Museum.

R. Saloon of the Apollo.

Laureated head of Napoleon, to the right. Beneath: ANDRIEU F. (fecit).

R. View of another saloon in the museum of the Louvre; in the distance the Apollo Belvedere. On the arch over the entrance-door: SALLE DE L'APOLLON . (Saloon of the Apollo). Above in a niche the bust of Napoleon, to the right. Exergue: MUSÉE NAPOLÉON. On the bar of the exergue ANDRIEU F. (fecit). DENON D. (direxit). [34"]

Paris Medal Mint.

On a bronze table place between the plinth and the pedestal of the Apollo, was engraved an inscription to this effect: "The statue of Apollo, which stands on this pedestal.....found at Antium towards the end of the fifteenth century, placed in the Vatican by Julius the Second, at the commencement of the sixteenth century, and conquered in the fifth year of the Republic by the army of Italy, under the command of General Bonaparte.....was placed here on the 21st Germinal in the year VIII. (11th April, 1800),—the first year of his consulate." Its place was at the bottom of the saloon, in a niche flanked by two columns from Aix-la-Chapelle.

Bramsen:

Bramsen - 371
Musée du Louvre, salle d'Apollon. (Andrieu.)

Comme celui de la précédente, mais d'un module plus petit et sur la barre d'exergue: DENON DIREX. ANDRIEU F.

(370) Tête de Napoléon laurée, à droite.

Rev: Vue d'une des salles du Musée du Louvre. Dans le fond, la statue de l'Apollon du Belvédère. Sur le cintre de la porte d'entrée: SALLE DE L'APOLLON. Au-dessus, dans une niche, le buste de Napoléon, à droite.

Exergue: MUSÉE NAPOLÉON

Sur la barre d'exergue: ANDRIEU F. DENON D.

Médaille, 31 mm. - H. m. 30, *77.