IRENE. "This name ", says King, which occurs on a sard gem, representing a Man holding a cup surmounted by a bird, " is clearly the owner's name, not the artist's ".
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
CHAVANNE, JEAN MARIE
CHAVANNE, JEAN MARIE (French). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, born at Lyons in 1766. He produced a number of interesting medals, relating to events of the Consulate and the Empire, as well as a series of jetons, some of the best known being that of the Medical Society of Lyons, with head of Hippocrates on obv. and the signature CHAVANNE F., and others of the Lyonnese Society of Friends of Commerce and Arts, and of the Pharmaceutical Society of the...
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CHAVANNE, JEAN MARIE (French). Medallist of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, born at Lyons in 1766. He produced a number of interesting medals, relating to events of the Consulate and the Empire, as well as a series of jetons, some of the best known being that of the Medical Society of Lyons, with head of Hippocrates on obv. and the signature CHAVANNE F., and others of the Lyonnese Society of Friends of Commerce and Arts, and of the Pharmaceutical Society of the...
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CHAVANNES, PUVIS DE
CHAVANNES, PUVIS DE (French). Contemporary Painter. "M. Puvis de Chavannes", says a writer in the Athenaeum, " has not long survived Sir E. Burne Jones, to whom Frenchmen were fond of comparing him, although there was really little similarity between them, for the one was essentially a far-away descendant of the later Renaissance in which the influence of the classical revival predominated, and the other distinctly derived his style from the earlier Renaissance, when the elements of romance and ...
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CHAVANNES, PUVIS DE (French). Contemporary Painter. "M. Puvis de Chavannes", says a writer in the Athenaeum, " has not long survived Sir E. Burne Jones, to whom Frenchmen were fond of comparing him, although there was really little similarity between them, for the one was essentially a far-away descendant of the later Renaissance in which the influence of the classical revival predominated, and the other distinctly derived his style from the earlier Renaissance, when the elements of romance and ...
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CHÉREAU, EUGÉNE JEAN
CHÉREAU, EUGÉNE JEAN (French). Medallist, and Gem-engraver, born at Mamers, residing at Paris ; he was a pupil of Caillouette and Garreaud. At the Salon of 1877, he exhibited a cameo on onyx, representing Zephyrus ; — 1878. Milo of Croton; — 1879. The Rape of Psyche; — 1881. Psyche; — 1882. Eos; — 1883. Le Fil rompu, cameo in carnelian; — Cupid disarmed ; — 1886. Ceres and Triptolemos, cameo in chalcedonyx ; — 1887. Herakles strangling the lion ; — 1888. The Judgment of Solomon ; — 1889. Various...
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CHÉREAU, EUGÉNE JEAN (French). Medallist, and Gem-engraver, born at Mamers, residing at Paris ; he was a pupil of Caillouette and Garreaud. At the Salon of 1877, he exhibited a cameo on onyx, representing Zephyrus ; — 1878. Milo of Croton; — 1879. The Rape of Psyche; — 1881. Psyche; — 1882. Eos; — 1883. Le Fil rompu, cameo in carnelian; — Cupid disarmed ; — 1886. Ceres and Triptolemos, cameo in chalcedonyx ; — 1887. Herakles strangling the lion ; — 1888. The Judgment of Solomon ; — 1889. Various...
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CHÉRET, JULES
CHÉRET, JULES (French). Contemporary Painter and Sculptor. He has produced some fine works. Two medals representing Maenads are illustrated in Les Médailleurs francais contemporains. M. Lecomte writes in Revue de Paris, 1899, p. 893 : " M. Jules Cheret, le poéte délicieux des f?tes de la vie, le peintre des r?ves de joie, nous a donné déjá quelques médailles fort séduisantes oú se retrouvent toute la grâce, tout le charme décoratif de son ?uvre. " Bibliography. — R. Marx, op. cit....
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CHÉRET, JULES (French). Contemporary Painter and Sculptor. He has produced some fine works. Two medals representing Maenads are illustrated in Les Médailleurs francais contemporains. M. Lecomte writes in Revue de Paris, 1899, p. 893 : " M. Jules Cheret, le poéte délicieux des f?tes de la vie, le peintre des r?ves de joie, nous a donné déjá quelques médailles fort séduisantes oú se retrouvent toute la grâce, tout le charme décoratif de son ?uvre. " Bibliography. — R. Marx, op. cit....
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