Historical Medals

FRANCE, L’Enfant à la rose [The Child with the Rose], 1896, a uniface Art Nouveau bronze plaque by J.-P. Legastelois, young girl to right, sniffing a rose, tree at right, 105 x 83mm (BDM III, 372). Very fine and a charming study, rare; with openwork loop mounts to aid suspension £80-£100

Almost certainly a forerunner of Legastelois’ better-known plaque, Jeunesse, first exhibited at the 1897 Paris Salon and adapted for the first issue of the Société des Amis de la Médaille française in 1899