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Medal Portraying the Baron Léon Janssen, 1910

  • bronze
  • 65 mm
  • Inv. 1911-D

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Gérard-Hubert-Léon Janssen, born in Maastricht in 1849, became a director of the Brussels tram company in 1879 and of Société Générale de Belgique in 1903. This Belgian businessman was awarded his baron title in 1909; a year later, he played an important role as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Brussels World Fair. It is in this capacity that he was honoured with this portrait medal. Twenty silver and 75 bronze examples were struck. On the reverse side, an angel with a trumpet is depicted next to a statue of St Michael, the patron saint of Brussels.

Artist

Charles Samuel RKD
Brussels 1862 - Cannes 1938
medalistsAAT

Fonson & Cie.
Brussels
workshop / studio

Title Medal Portraying the Baron Léon Janssen
Date 1910
Location Belgium TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) on the front side: CH. SAMUEL
name on the front side: BARON JANSSEN PRESIDENT DU COMITE EXECUTIF
inscription and year on the reverse: I 9 I 0 ; EXPOSITION VNIVERSELLE DE BRVXELLES
Collection medals AAT
Object type medals AAT
Inventory number 1911-D
Acquisition credit purchase
Stad Gent
Brussels
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1911-D
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
61B2 historical persons Iconclass
61B2(LÉON JANSSEN) historical person (LÉON JANSSEN) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles en 1910 : Salon international de la médaille contemporaine... : Groupe II: Beaux-Arts ; Classe 9B: Gravure en médailles (Bruxelles, Palais du Cinquantenaire, 01.05 - 15.11.1910) ; Catalogue / Victor Tourneur. - Bruxelles : Imprimerie A. Lesigne, 1910 (p. 107)
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