WORLD ART MEDALS France, Armand Barbes, uniface portrait medal in iron, 1844, by David d’Angers,160mm (cf. David d’Angers, exhibt. cat, Paris, 1966, p. 126, 158). Extremely fine (£120-150)

Armand Barbès, republican revolutionary (1809-1870). David visited him in prison and subsequently wrote “il y a dans cet homme un sentiment très remarquable de générosité, de courage sans emphase, d’humanité”. Barbès died in exile.