France, 1898. France. “La Famille”, a charming small silver Art Nouveau medal by Émile-Victor Prouvé, young mother seated amid woodland foliage holding a child in her arms, the father behind, reverse floral pattern, 34mm (PBE 770; BDM IV, p.701/2). About extremely fine and very rare in silver

Émile-Victor Prouvé (1858-1943), painter, sculptor and medallist. Madame Yvonne Goldenberg remarks favourably of his “vigorous style and originality of conception”
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