Lot 285: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

GUILLAUME DUPRÉ (c. 1579-1640) Henry IV (1589-1610), Marie de Medici and the Dauphin, bronze medal, 1603, HENR III R CHRIST MARIA AVGVSTA, conjoined busts of Henry and Marie right; signed and dated at truncation, G DVPRE F 1603, rev., PROPAGO IMPERI, Henry as Mars clasping the hand of Marie as Minerva while between them the Dauphin, with foot on dolphin, tries on his father's helmet; dated below, 1603, 67.5mm (Mazerolle 639; Jones 16; Pollard 637 = Kress 556; Smolderen 8), with integral loop for suspension, a very fine and sharp contemporary cast with fine brown patina