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Plaque Medal offered to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent by the Comité français des expositions à l'étranger in 1899, 1899

  • silver (metal)
  • 63 mm
  • Inv. 1914-A

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The front of this plaque depicts a seated woman in draped robes, holding a winged helmet. On the ground lies a horn of plenty and in the background is a panorama of factories and activity. The reverse shows a laurel tree with, against its trunk, a hammer, a plough and two serpents wriggling. Next to it is a thistle. This plaque was offered to various people or institutions by the Comité français des expositions à l'étranger, with space on the reverse for an inscription.

Artist

Alexandre Louis Bottée RKD Wikidata
Paris 1852 - Paris 1940
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Title Plaque Medal offered to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent by the Comité français des expositions à l'étranger in 1899
Date 1899
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings name on the front side
text on the reverse: Comité français des expositions à l'étranger
text on the reverse: Musée de Gand
Collection medals AAT
Object type commemorative plaque
Inventory number 1914-A
Acquisition credit gift
Comité français des Expositions à l'Etranger
Ghent
1914-01
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-A
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8271/manifest.json
https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8272/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 25F42 snakes Iconclass
25G3(LAUREL) trees: laurel Iconclass
25G4(THISTLE) plants and herbs: thistle Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA2352 sitting on an elevation - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
45C221 helmet Iconclass
47D8(HAMMER) tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: hammer Iconclass
92B11221 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
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