Lot 295: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

GUILLAUME DUPRÉ (c. 1579-1640) Jean du Caylar de Saint Bonnet (1585-1636), as Le Maréchal de Toiras (1585-1636), bronze medal, 1634, LE MARESCHAL DE TOYRAS, armoured bust right in lace collar, wearing the cross of the Order of St. Esprit; below truncation, GVIL DVPRE F 1634, rev., ADVERSA CORONANT, the sun shining through clouds over a landscape with the sea in the distance, 59.7mm (Mazerolle 705; Jones 67; Pollard 652 = Kress 570; Smolderen 43), some obverse field scratches, sometime cleaned, an extremely fine contemporary cast