Lot 296: [ FRENCH MEDALS ]

GUILLAUME DUPRÉ (c. 1579-1640) Victor Amadeus I (1587-1637), Duke of Savoy from 1630, large bronze uniface medal, 1636, VICTOR AMADEVS DVX SAB PRINC PED REX CIPR, bust right, wearing lace collar and sash over decorated armour, a lovelock on his far shoulder; signed and dated below truncation, G DVPRÉ F 1636, 108mm (Smolderen 48; Löbbecke 202), pierced, an extremely fine contemporary cast of high quality (although with a casting fault in the right field), with brown patina

Provenance: Morton & Eden, 13-14 December 2005, lot 614. Smolderen recorded two examples in trade of this large medal of Victor Amadeus I signed by Guillaume Dupré. Most versions bear the signature of his son Abraham (as Mazerolle 716, Jones 74, and see the following lot). It must have been a shared commission.