MICHAUT, AUGUSTE FRANCOIS (French). Sculptor, Medallist, and Engraver of coins, born at Paris, 29. September 1786, died there in December 1879, at the age of ninety-six. He was a pupil of Moitte, Lemot, and Galle, and in 1812 he obtained at the Salon the " Second Grand Prix pour Rome ", for medal-engraving, the subject being : The French Hercules. This artist will better be remembered as a Coin-engraver than as a Medallist. His dies of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. are undoubtedly his best productions. He also worked for William I. of Holland, who by Royal decree of 4. October 1815 appointed him Medallist to the Court; and later, 9. December 1816, entrusted him with the engraving of the dies for the 10, 3, 1 and 1/2 Gulden pieces, with the King's bust, while a commission was given to the Utrecht Mintengravers, D. van der Kellen and A. J. van der Monde to cut the subsidiary coinage in silver and copper, as well as gold Ducats (the "Trade" ducats of the old type). Michaut's signature occurs on the following Dutch coins : 1817. 10, 3,1 and 1/2 Gulden pieces; — 1817. 3 Gulden, new type; — 1818. 10 Gulden. In 1819. D. van der Kellen was appointed Chief-engraver at the Mint of Utrecht, and henceforth Michaut's name does no longer occur in connection with William I.'s coinage. Michaut was employed by the French Mint as early as 1814. Tiolier Senr was then Chief-engraver (1803-1816), his son, Tiolier Junr succeeding him (1816-1843). On his first restoration, Louis XVIII. signed on 10. May 1814 a decree, ordering a coinage of Al. 20 Franc and AR. 5 Franc pieces, the dies for which were executed by Tiolier, but on the 2. August following, a competition was opened for the engraving of new coin-types. Michaut took part in the competition and produced a Pattern 40 Francs, which exists in various metals, and four types of Pattern 5 Franc pieces (reproduced in Dewamin, Cent ans de numismatique, 1900, PI. XL 6, 7, 8, 9). Amongst Michaut's medallic productions, I may mention the following, under the years in which they were exhibited at the Paris Salon : 1827. Patterns of Coins of Louis XVIII. , and Charles X.; — Patterns of Coins of William I., King of the Netherlands ; — Bust of Louis XVIII. ; — Bust of Charles X. ; — Full-length portrait of Charles X. granting a colonial Charter; — The " French" Hercules ; — Theseus ; — Herakles ; — Large State Seals of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ; — Sketches of medals executed for William I. of Holland ; — R. of Medal commemorating the erection of the French standards on the banks of the Volga, 1812 (illustrated); — Marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Angoul?me ; — Restoration of the statues of French Kings; — Commemorative Medal of the Duke of Berry, after Pradier; — Commemorative Medal of the vow of the inhabitants of Versailles ; — Charles X. granting a Charter to the Colonies; — Justice; — Portrait-medals of Jean Francois Ducis, poet; — 1816. Louis David, painter; — 1822. Dr Broussais; — Alexander I., Czar of Russia; — Medal on the Reunion of Holland and Belgium ; — Medal of the Dutch Royal Family; — Jetons of Paris Notaries; — 1831. Birth of the King of Rome, 1811; — The French Eagle on the banks of the Volga; — Accession of Louis-Philippe I. ; — Stamp of the Head Quarters' Staff of the Paris National Guard ; — 1843. Medal, with R. C.M. de l'Epée, signed : MICHAUT DES MONNAIES. By the same Medallist are also : Union of the Southern and Northern States of the Netherlands, 181 5 ; — Medal of Merit, with bust of William I. of Holland, 1819 (3 var.); — 1820. The Dutch Royal Family ; — William I. and his Queen ; — Portrait-medallion of King William I. ; — Another, of the Queen ; — The Queen of Holland and Prince of Orange ; — The Prince of Orange, Prince Frederick, and Princess Marianne; — 1821. Conquest of Palembang; —also, Charles X.'s arrival at Versailles, 1824; — Octagonal Jeton of the Company of Notaries of Paris, undated; — Dr Francois Joseph Victor Broussais, 1814 ; and another of 1836 ; — Botanical Prize Medal, of Belgium, 1829; — Cr?che of Namur, 1843. Michaut was a Member of the Dutch Institute, and on his return to Paris in 1819 Louis XVIII. appointed him Medallist to the Dauphin. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Thomsen Catalogue of Medals. — Catalogue Dewamin. — Various Sale Catalogues.
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
MEINHARDT, HANS GEORG
MEINHARDT, HANS GEORG (Germ.). Possibly the same as (HANS) GEORG MAINHART. Mint-master at Eisleben, Halle and Stolberg, circ. 1595-1615 ; later (probably the same person) at Winsen, 1619- 1621; appointed 1. January 1622 at Moisburg, from where he went to Poland. We next find him as Mint-master at Lobsenz, where in 1637 he was still in office. Bahrfeldt (Beiträge zur Münz-geschichte der Lüneburgischen Lande, Wien, 1893) surmises that this same HANS GEORG MEINHARDT was also connected with the epis...
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MEINHARDT, HANS GEORG (Germ.). Possibly the same as (HANS) GEORG MAINHART. Mint-master at Eisleben, Halle and Stolberg, circ. 1595-1615 ; later (probably the same person) at Winsen, 1619- 1621; appointed 1. January 1622 at Moisburg, from where he went to Poland. We next find him as Mint-master at Lobsenz, where in 1637 he was still in office. Bahrfeldt (Beiträge zur Münz-geschichte der Lüneburgischen Lande, Wien, 1893) surmises that this same HANS GEORG MEINHARDT was also connected with the epis...
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MEISSONNIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST
MEISSONNIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST (French). A famous Painter of the nineteenth century, born at Lyons in 1811, died at Paris in 1891. He began as a book illustrator of "Paul et Virginie" amongst other works, practising the while and perfecting his art as a figure painter, in which he achieved signal success, from his “Chess-player" series to his designs for the decoration of the Pantheon, "The Apotheosis of France". He was also a successful modeller in wax and clay, and by him are some Portrait-med...
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MEISSONNIER, JEAN LOUIS ERNEST (French). A famous Painter of the nineteenth century, born at Lyons in 1811, died at Paris in 1891. He began as a book illustrator of "Paul et Virginie" amongst other works, practising the while and perfecting his art as a figure painter, in which he achieved signal success, from his “Chess-player" series to his designs for the decoration of the Pantheon, "The Apotheosis of France". He was also a successful modeller in wax and clay, and by him are some Portrait-med...
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MEISSONNIER, JUSTE AUR?LE
MEISSONNIER, JUSTE AUR?LE (French). Architect, Painter, Sculptor, and Goldsmith, born at Turin in 1675, died at Paris in 1750. He was one of the artists, says Rondot, who gave a new impulse to the decorative art, created under Louis XIV. by Lepautre, Marot, and others. As chief of a school he is one of the originators of the style (so-called) of Louis XV. Meissonnier is famous as a Goldsmith, and he was " Dessinateur ordinaire du Cabinet du roi. " Bibliography. — Rondot, op. cit., p. 355. — J. J...
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MEISSONNIER, JUSTE AUR?LE (French). Architect, Painter, Sculptor, and Goldsmith, born at Turin in 1675, died at Paris in 1750. He was one of the artists, says Rondot, who gave a new impulse to the decorative art, created under Louis XIV. by Lepautre, Marot, and others. As chief of a school he is one of the originators of the style (so-called) of Louis XV. Meissonnier is famous as a Goldsmith, and he was " Dessinateur ordinaire du Cabinet du roi. " Bibliography. — Rondot, op. cit., p. 355. — J. J...
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MEIT, CONRAD
MEIT, CONRAD (Germ.). Sculptor to the Archduchess Margarethe, a friend of Albrecht Dürer, who worked some time at Wittenberg, in the early part of the sixteenth century. He appears to have been also a Medallist, as shown by the Portrait-medal of the young Nuremberg patrician Peter Harsdörffer, signed : CONTRFET VON CONRAT MIT. A model of this medal in alabaster was published by Imhoff, but the inscription could no longer be read. By the same artist is a statuette of Judith in alabaster in the Ba...
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MEIT, CONRAD (Germ.). Sculptor to the Archduchess Margarethe, a friend of Albrecht Dürer, who worked some time at Wittenberg, in the early part of the sixteenth century. He appears to have been also a Medallist, as shown by the Portrait-medal of the young Nuremberg patrician Peter Harsdörffer, signed : CONTRFET VON CONRAT MIT. A model of this medal in alabaster was published by Imhoff, but the inscription could no longer be read. By the same artist is a statuette of Judith in alabaster in the Ba...
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