Lot 294: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

GUILLAUME DUPRÉ (c. 1579-1640) Marie de Medici (1573-1642), bronze medal, c. 1625, MARIA AVG GALL ET NAVAR REGIN (legend retrograde), bust of Marie right wearing widow's cap, large open ruff and cross, rev., Marie as Cybele surrounded by her children as Olympian deities: Louis XIII as Jupiter, Henrietta Maria as Amphitrite, Christine as Diana, Elizabeth as Juno and Gaston as Hercules; within cartouche below LAETA DEVM PARTV, 53.1mm (Mazerolle 694; Jones 61; Pollard 650 = Kress 567; Smolderen 36), possible removal of mount from top, a very fine contemporary cast with mottled brown patina