Category: Blog post
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Mistaken identity: Bourdon’s portrait of Warin in the Orléans collection.
I’m slowing beginning to unravel the mystery of a lost portrait, supposedly of the medal maker and sculptor, Jean Warin (1604-72), attributed to Sébastien Bourdon (1616-71), which once hung in the Palais Royal as part of the famous Orléans collection. The painting is illustrated in the third volume of a 1786 publication of the Orléans…
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Notes from the field: A Louis XV jeton for Martinique, not Canada.
Jeton, Louis XV, Sub Omni Sidere Crescunt, 1751. Collection: The American Numismatic Society. Today I became aware of a fascinating jeton (a small medal-like token) from the reign of Louis XV. The reverse carries the image of what was thought be a First Nations Person of New France (Canada). This ‘Amerindian’ has plumes in his…
Robert Wellington 