About the Artwork
Leverrier
1884
Alphee Dubois
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French
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 2 3/4 inches (7 cm)
Medals
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
22.185
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Markings
Signed and dated, on obverse, to right of Leverrier: ALPHEE DUBOIS | 1884. Signed, on reverse: ALPHEE DUBOIS.
Inscription, obverse: U.J.J. LE-VERRIER DE L'ACADAMIE DES SCIENCES. 1811-1877.
Provenance
(Paris Mint, Paris, France)
1922-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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R.P. "French Medals Acquired," Bulletin of the DIA 4, no. 8 (1923): pp. 67-68, p. 67 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Alphee Dubois, Leverrier, 1884, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 22.185.
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