Lot 291: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

GUILLAUME DUPRÉ (c. 1579-1640) Nicolas Brulart de Sillery (1544-1624), statesman and Chancellor of France from 1607, bronze medal, 1613, NI BRVLARTVS A SILLERY FRANC ET NAVAR CANCEL, bust right in fur-lined gown, rev., LABOR ACTVS IN ORBEM, Apollo driving chariot of the sun over celestial globe showing Cancer, Leo and Virgo, 70.5mm (Mazerolle 679; Jones 46; Pollard 644 = Kress 563; Smolderen 26), faint trace of mount, a very fine contemporary cast with brown patina