BRENET, Nicolas Guy Antoine

Paris 1773 - Paris 1846

AUGUSTE, Henri

Paris 1759 - Jamaïca or Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1816

Bonaparte Premier Consul / Bataille de Marengo

Bonaparte First Consul / Battle of Marengo

after 1800

copper

medal and plaquette

Dimensions (HxWxD): D. 1 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ ; weight: 0,145 lbs

obverse:
around the circumference: BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL DE LA REP. FRANCe
inscribed at lower: BATAILLE DE MARENGO / 25 ET 26 PRAIRIAL / AN 8
signed at lower right: H. AUGUSTE
reverse:
inscribed in the center: LE PREMIER CONSUL / COMMANDANT / L'ARMEE DE RESERVE / EN PERSONNE : / ENFANTS / RAPPELLEZ-VOUS / QUE MON HABITUDE EST / DE COUCHER SUR LE CHAMP / DE BATAILLE

Acc. No.: 2001.87.2702

Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery / http://artgallery.yale.edu

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain; © Artist : public domain

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery

artgallery.yale.edu

Provenance

• 2001, Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection

Bibliography

• Museum's website (accessed June 2017)

Related works

• Bataille de Marengo, 25 et 26 prairial an VIII (14 et 15 juin 1800), 1800, 1 15/16 in, ND2671, Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Paris

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