Historical and Art Medals

France, 1900. France. Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis, a self-portrait posthumously issued silver medal, bust left, 1876 below, reverse winged cherub, edge stamped 26, 50mm (cf. PBE 293 for obverse; Coll. R. Marx 96). About extremely fine

Issued to commemorate the life of Daniel-Dupuis by the Socété des Amis de la Médaille Française (SAMF), a body founded in 1899 by Roger Marx. From 1899 until it ceased activities in 1910, the SAMF issued 58 different medals. The obverse of this medal is taken from the self-portrait executed by Daniel-Dupuis in 1876 (BDM I, 663)