Historical and Art Medals

1840. FRANCE. Hyacinth de Quelen, Archbishop of Paris, bronze medal by J.J. Barre and E.J. Dubois, facing bust, reverse Notre Dame, 57mm (BDM I, 131), light scuffing, better than very fine; together with St François Xavier, 1843, bronze prize medal by V.M. Borrel, named ‘T. Guilleau, Rennes, 1857’, 52mm, extremely fine; J.B.D. Cochet, bronze medal by J.C. Chaplain, 50mm [3], glue marks on reverse, very fine (£50-80)

Jean Benoit Désiré Cochet (1812-75), archaeologist, Rouen; Director of the Musée des Antiquities, Seine-Inférieure.