MAIRE, JEAN BAPTISTE (French). Medallist, born at Besancon, 5. August 1787, died there, 13. December 1859. His first teacher was Dominique Paillot, Director of the Drawing school of his native city. He then studied medicine, and in 1809, accompanied the French army to Spain as surgeon, but wounded at the siege of Saragossa, he returned to Besancon and turned his attention to sculpture. In 1816, he was admitted at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and worked under and for the sculptor Lemot, whom he assisted in the execution of certain of his works, as for instance, the statue of Henry IV., re-erected by Louis XVIII. , near the Pont-Neuf. J. B. Maire exhibited at the Paris Salon, from 1819 to 1852, in the section of sculpture. His principal works are : Head of Christ (in Besancon Museum); — Head of St. John the Baptist; — Bust of Lieut. -General Donzelot, governor of Martinique ; — Bust of Mairet ; — Head of Eurydice; — Bust of Cardinal de la Luzerne ; — Bust of Mgr. de Quelen, &c. On the invitation of his friend, Charles Weiss, town librarian of Besancon, the artist executed a series of medals representing distinguished citizens of Franche-Comté. A subscription was opened in 1836, and the first medal which appeared was that of Gilbert Cousin, the friend of Erasmus; the last was that of Mgr. Mathieu, archbishop of Besancon, which his daughter, Mlle Anna Maire, had to finish, death having overtaken the medallist before he could achieve it. He could not either complete the R. of General Lecourbe's medal, and only prepared the model of that of Bichat. All the medals of J. B. Maire are struck. At his death, the dies were acquired by the Municipal Council of Besancon and deposited in the Archaeological Museum of that town. He had invented a Reducing Machine for the use of medallists, which is now preserved at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. The artist's portrait is reduced from a drawing by Mlle Anna Maire. LIST OF J. B. MAIRE'S MEDALS 1834. Prize Medal of the Academy of Besancon; — 1836. Gilbert Cousin, chanoine de Nozeroy (1506-1572); — L. F. A. de Rohan- Chabot, archbishop of Besancon (1788-1833) ; — J. J. A. Courvoisier, garde des Sceaux (1775-1835); — 1837. Jean-Jacques Chifflet, historian (1588-1673); — Joseph d'Olivet, abbot (1682-1768); — Antoine Perrenot, cardinal Granvella (1517-1586; illustrated); — J. B. V. Proud'hon, jurisconsultus (1758-1838); — 1839. J. I. de Froissard-Broissia, camerlingo of Pope Innocent XI. († 1694); — 1840. C. L. de Faletans, Governor of the Order of Saint-Georges de Franche-Comté (1624-1700); — 1841. Jacques Curasson, president of the Academy of Besancon (1770-1841); — Philibert de Chalon, baron d'Arlay, prince of Orange (1502-1530); — J. de Jouffroy, bishop of Arras and Albi (1412-1475); — 1843. Georges Cuvier, naturalist (1769-1832); — Pierre Joseph Desault, surgeon (1744- 1795); — 1844. Lieut. General Comte Morand (1771- 1835) ; — 1845. Antoine Pierre de Grammont, archbishop of Besancon (1614- 1698); — F.J. Dunod de Charnage, historian (1678-1752); — 1846. Charles Weiss, keeper of the Besancon Civic Library (1779- 1866); — 1852. J. M. A. Césaire Mathieu, archbishop of Besancon (1796-1875); — Undated. Xavier Bichat, surgeon of the Hôtel- Dieu, Paris (1771-1802; — General Lecourbe (1759-1815). Mlle. Maire presented recently to the Besancon Museum seven dies by her father, which represent : Napoleon I. ; — Frederick the Great ; — Benjamin Franklin ; — Jean Jacques Rousseau ; — Voltaire; — Fénelon, Massillon and Bourdaloue. They seem to have been intended for repoussé work, and not medals. Bibliography. — F. Mazerolle, J. B. Maire, Gazette numismatique francaise, 1897, pp. 289-298. — Chavignerie et Auvray, op. cit.
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
LUCENTI
LUCENTI or LUCINI, GIROLAMO (Ital.). Sculptor, Medallist and Mint-engraver at Rome, circ. 1668-1690; pupil of Cav. Algardi, became Assistant-engraver in 1668 under Gasp. Morone. He worked principally for the Popes Clement X., Innocent XI., and Alexander VIII., and also for Sa. Maria di Monte Santo. As a rival of the Hameranis, he did not however attain their fame. His statue of an Angel with the nails of the cross on Sant' Angelo Bridge at Rome is no mean work. For his accomplishments as an arti...
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LUCENTI or LUCINI, GIROLAMO (Ital.). Sculptor, Medallist and Mint-engraver at Rome, circ. 1668-1690; pupil of Cav. Algardi, became Assistant-engraver in 1668 under Gasp. Morone. He worked principally for the Popes Clement X., Innocent XI., and Alexander VIII., and also for Sa. Maria di Monte Santo. As a rival of the Hameranis, he did not however attain their fame. His statue of an Angel with the nails of the cross on Sant' Angelo Bridge at Rome is no mean work. For his accomplishments as an arti...
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LÜDER, JAN
LÜDER, JAN (Dutch). Medallist of the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century and early part of the eighteenth, circ. 1680- 1710. He executed a large number of medals for William III. of. Great Britain and also for John George III., Elector of Saxony. His work is not of great merit, and he is said to have frequently copied the designs of other medallists. This engraver visited England, where he may have cut some of his medals : Among his productions, we find : James II. and — Mary, 1685 James I...
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LÜDER, JAN (Dutch). Medallist of the fourth quarter of the seventeenth century and early part of the eighteenth, circ. 1680- 1710. He executed a large number of medals for William III. of. Great Britain and also for John George III., Elector of Saxony. His work is not of great merit, and he is said to have frequently copied the designs of other medallists. This engraver visited England, where he may have cut some of his medals : Among his productions, we find : James II. and — Mary, 1685 James I...
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LÜDERS, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH
LÜDERS, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (Germ.). Medallist at Berlin, arc. 1702-1742, and Mint-engraver there. He was employed by the Royal House of Prussia, and was a successful Engraver. They comprise : Marriage of King Frederick I. of Prussia with Sophie Louise of Mecklenburg-Grabow, 1708; — Marriage of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wurtemberg, with Henrietta Maria, Princess of Prussia, 1716; — Marriage of Crown Prince Frederick at Salzdahlum, 1733 (2 var., one of which is signed KOCH on obv.) ; — Marriage...
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LÜDERS, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (Germ.). Medallist at Berlin, arc. 1702-1742, and Mint-engraver there. He was employed by the Royal House of Prussia, and was a successful Engraver. They comprise : Marriage of King Frederick I. of Prussia with Sophie Louise of Mecklenburg-Grabow, 1708; — Marriage of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wurtemberg, with Henrietta Maria, Princess of Prussia, 1716; — Marriage of Crown Prince Frederick at Salzdahlum, 1733 (2 var., one of which is signed KOCH on obv.) ; — Marriage...
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LUNDER, GABRIEL
LUNDER, GABRIEL (Norweg.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century ; born at Kongsberg (in Norway) ; resided for some time at Nuremberg, then at Koenigsberg, and finally settled at Copenhagen, where he was working from 1742 to 1782. His productions are usually signed G. L. or G. L. F., but also L. One of the most artistic is his Portrait-medal of the ecclesiastic Johann Meyer, superior of St. Lorenz, at Nuremberg. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — I. V. Kull...
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LUNDER, GABRIEL (Norweg.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century ; born at Kongsberg (in Norway) ; resided for some time at Nuremberg, then at Koenigsberg, and finally settled at Copenhagen, where he was working from 1742 to 1782. His productions are usually signed G. L. or G. L. F., but also L. One of the most artistic is his Portrait-medal of the ecclesiastic Johann Meyer, superior of St. Lorenz, at Nuremberg. Bibliography. — Ammon, op. cit. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — I. V. Kull...
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