Description:
Box size: Height: 2,4 cm.
Width: 10,8 cm.
Depth: 9,3 cm.
- Rectangular bronze medallion, representing a seated couple, looking at a map in front of a landscape. Sculpted by Henry Dropsy, and issued in the first half of the 20th century for the Touring Club de France. The Medal is in its original box.
- The Touring Club de France was a French Club founded in 1890 by a group of cyclists whose objective was the development of tourism, disappeared in 1983.
- Without a doubt, the sculptor Henry Dropsy was a great artist. Coming from a family of sculptors, he won prizes in various competitions. He was a professor at the National School of Fine Arts, and was chosen as a member of the engraving section.
- Front: Represented by the high relief of a couple, sitting in the shade of a tree, while they comment on a map that he holds in his hands. In the background there is a beautiful landscape. In the lower right part it has the signature: "HENRY DROPSY".
- Back: The emblem of the Club Touring de France is represented in the centre, with the three initials "TCF" superimposed. Below the emblem, the full name of the Club, and at the bottom of the plate, an attribution to L. Pillot. The name of the person to whom the medal was attributed was engraved on this part of the plaque.
- The box is in good condition. It has several frictions and faults due to use and time.
- A smooth edge with the inscription "CUIVRE" next to a small triangle.
- The artistic quality of the medal is very high and it is executed with great ease, achieving harmonious and expressive effects in the high reliefs.
- The passage of time, with its almost 100 years, has given the medal a precious patina.
Conservation and damage:
- Both the obverse and the reverse are in a good state of conservation.
- The Medal has an impurity in the bronze casting, located on the surface of the sky, next to the right hand of the man.
- There is some slight friction and knocks, due to time and
Comments:
- Both the measurements and the weight are approximate.
- Very interesting as a collector"s item and as a decorative element.
- Because it is inevitable the differences of tonalities between photos and reality, it is necessary to bear in mind that the tones of the colours of the photos are not exactly equal to the tones of the real colours.
- The Object on sale is the one that corresponds to the photos, which in turn are complemented in this Description, with the aim of providing a better knowledge of the Object, and never being a detailed exhibition of it.
- The object shows the wear and tear of its time, as well as some stains. It has small flaws.
- The data provided here are not contrasted personal opinions.
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