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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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Jean Warin teaching the young Louis XIV history by medals.
Conti Museum, Monnaie de Paris. Photo: the author, 2018. I recently revisited a painting, Jean Warin instructing the Young Louis XIV in the appreciation of medals (ca.1645), at the Monnaie de Paris. I have been thinking about that picture for many years now. Looking closely at the strange double portrait, and the coins and medals in…
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Renewal of the Alliance
J-B Nolin and J Le Clerc, after C Le Brun, The renewal of the alliance with the Swiss…18 Nov 1663, from the History of the King tapestry series. 1680 (mid 20th century reprint from original plate). After the revelation that my successful Australian Research Council DECRA application was vetoed without explanation by the Australian Education…
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The many lives of Louis XIV prints and medals
Art historians working on histories of global exchange in the early modern period are often faced with the challenge of writing histories of travelling objects without the objects themselves, as they are so often lost or destroyed. The multiple copies produced of Louis XIV prints and medals that I’m working on has saved me from…
Robert Wellington 