Live auction - bry_529772 - LOUIS XVI Épreuve uniface en étain de Dupré pour le droit l’écu “dit constitutionnel” 1791
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| Estimate : | 1 800 € |
| Price : | no bid |
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| End of the sale : | 04 June 2019 17:30:21 |
Type : Épreuve uniface en étain de Dupré pour le droit l’écu “dit constitutionnel”
Date: 1791
Metal : tin
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Slab
PCGS : SP 58
Coments on the condition:
Cette épreuve est frappée sur un flan large et est concave. Rayure sur la joue du roi et une autre derrière le millésime. Exemplaire recouvert d’une patine grise de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque PCGS SP58, n° 501909.58/29188317
Obverse
Obverse legend : LOUIS XVI ROI DES FRANÇOIS.
Obverse description : Tête de Louis XVI à gauche, les cheveux noués sur la nuque par un ruban ; au-dessous 1791.
Reverse
Commentary
Épreuve ou tirage en étain uniface sur papier d’après un carré gravé de droit d’Augustin Dupré. Dupré, remporta le concours et ce type fut adopté pour les écus dits “constitutionnels”. Le buste du roi gravé par Dupré est d’une bonne qualité et rivalise avec ceux présentés par Duvivier et Droz lors du concours de 1791. Les autres candidats, tels qu’Andrieux, Gatteaux ou Vasselon ont présenté des bustes beaucoup moins maîtrisés.
Historical background
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
The Girondin ministry, formed on March 23, 1792, declared war on April 20 on the King of Bohemia and Hungary, Leopold II. Rouget de Lisle composes the Marseillaise on April 25th. The Fatherland is declared "in danger" on July 11. The Parisians and the Marseillais take the Tuileries and massacre the defenders of the castle, Swiss and noble, the king and his family take refuge near the Assembly. Louis XVI was stripped of his functions and interned in the Temple on August 12. In early September, massacres took place in Parisian prisons, including the Carmelites, and claimed thousands of victims, including the Princess of Lamballe, Marie-Antoinette's friend. Dumouriez and Kellermann won the victory of Valmy over the Prussians on September 20, 1792. The news was quickly known thanks to Chappe's telegraph. The following day, the republic was proclaimed and royalty abolished at the first meeting of the Convention. Dumouriez defeated the Austrians at Jemmapes on November 6 and occupied Brussels. The King's trial begins on December 10. On January 17, he was sentenced to death by a majority vote and was guillotined on January 21, 1793..
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