DE SAINTE-CROIX, J. MARIE (French). Master of the Mint at Perpignan, from the 5th year of the First French Republic to 1808. His distinctive mark is a bunch of grapes.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
CURÉ, SIMON
CURÉ, SIMON (French). Medallist and Goldsmith of the first half of the eighteenth century, of whom we possess a number of Portraitmedals of French Celebrities, Scientists, and Artists, such as : Titon du Tillet ; — Francois Maynard ; — Jean Francois Sarrasin ; — Lalande, 1726 ; — Houdard de Lamotte, 1731 ; — Crébillon ; — Vaniére ; — Charles de La Rue, 1725 ; — Paul Francois de Malherbe, 1718; — Clément Marot, 1718; — Moliére; — Jean Racine, 1718 ; — René Rapin ; — Voiture ; — Scarron ; — Scévol...
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CURÉ, SIMON (French). Medallist and Goldsmith of the first half of the eighteenth century, of whom we possess a number of Portraitmedals of French Celebrities, Scientists, and Artists, such as : Titon du Tillet ; — Francois Maynard ; — Jean Francois Sarrasin ; — Lalande, 1726 ; — Houdard de Lamotte, 1731 ; — Crébillon ; — Vaniére ; — Charles de La Rue, 1725 ; — Paul Francois de Malherbe, 1718; — Clément Marot, 1718; — Moliére; — Jean Racine, 1718 ; — René Rapin ; — Voiture ; — Scarron ; — Scévol...
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DADLER, SEBASTIAN
DADLER, SEBASTIAN (Germ.). One of the foremost Medallists of the seventeenth century. According to the best authorities, he was born at Strassburg, but resided in turn at Augsburg, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Dresden, in which last-named city he spent the latter part of his life, and presumably died in 1654. His works date from 1619 to 1654. At Augsburg, where we find him in 1619, be filled the post of first Goldsmith to the Imperial Court, and there attained celebrity as a Medallist and Chaser in g...
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DADLER, SEBASTIAN (Germ.). One of the foremost Medallists of the seventeenth century. According to the best authorities, he was born at Strassburg, but resided in turn at Augsburg, Nuremberg, Hamburg, and Dresden, in which last-named city he spent the latter part of his life, and presumably died in 1654. His works date from 1619 to 1654. At Augsburg, where we find him in 1619, be filled the post of first Goldsmith to the Imperial Court, and there attained celebrity as a Medallist and Chaser in g...
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DAEDALOS
DAEDALOS (Greek). Vide ?A suprâ. Sculptor, of Sicyon, the son and disciple of Patrocles, and mentioned by Pliny among the artists of the 95th Olympiad. Daedalos erected a trophy for the Eleians in the Altis after a victory over the Lacedaemonians in the war which lasted B.C. 401-399. Besides this trophy, he made several statues of athletes and some other works (Smith's Diet, of Greek and Roman Biog.) " Professor Gardner ", says Dr B. V. Head, " has even ventured to suggest that Daedalos may actu...
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DAEDALOS (Greek). Vide ?A suprâ. Sculptor, of Sicyon, the son and disciple of Patrocles, and mentioned by Pliny among the artists of the 95th Olympiad. Daedalos erected a trophy for the Eleians in the Altis after a victory over the Lacedaemonians in the war which lasted B.C. 401-399. Besides this trophy, he made several statues of athletes and some other works (Smith's Diet, of Greek and Roman Biog.) " Professor Gardner ", says Dr B. V. Head, " has even ventured to suggest that Daedalos may actu...
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DAISER, JOSEPH
DAISER, JOSEPH (Germ.). Sculptor of the second half of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth, born in 1755. He was employed for some years as Engraver of the coins at the Mints of Günzburg 1801-1807, and Munich, 1807- 1827. A medal, struck in 1810, and bearing a fine portrait of King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, is signed by him. There are also others : L. B. Lytgendorff, aeronaut; — Pilgrim's Badges; &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. cit. — ...
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DAISER, JOSEPH (Germ.). Sculptor of the second half of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth, born in 1755. He was employed for some years as Engraver of the coins at the Mints of Günzburg 1801-1807, and Munich, 1807- 1827. A medal, struck in 1810, and bearing a fine portrait of King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, is signed by him. There are also others : L. B. Lytgendorff, aeronaut; — Pilgrim's Badges; &c. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Schlickeysen-Pallmann, op. cit. — ...
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