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Giovanni Labresca and Donato Vidari, c.1882, a large cast bronze medal, unsigned [by A. Legros), bearded bust of Labresca, reverse bearded bust of Vidari, 117mm (Attwood, The Medal 5, p.7, no.22; BDM III, 378). Extremely fine, a most attractive cast with light, even patination, very rare (£150-200)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical and Art Medals, the Property of a European Collector.

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Ex Simmons & Simmons FPL Autumn 1992, 15.

Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), the French painter who lived in London from 1863, was inspired by the Italian Renaissance medallists and started to make his own medals, imitating Renaissance style, in 1881. His pioneering method of work led to a revival of the cast medal in Britain, although he himself had his medals cast in Paris in small editions