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Object Number:29-223-86
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:French
Provenience: France
Manufacture Location: France
Maker: Vauthier
Date Made: circa 1818
Early Date: 1818
Late Date: 1843
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Bronze
Iconography:Male Portrait
Inscription
Thickness: 0.3 cm
Outside Diameter:5.1 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Maxwell Sommerville, 1901

Description

OBV: profile (male) of Gaspard Monge and inscription Maker: Vauthier REV: inscription surrounded by leaves and acorns: Ne a Beaune 1746. Memb.re de l'Academie des Sciences 1780. Ministre de la Marine 1792. Memb.re de l'Institut 1795. L'un des Fondateurs de l'Ecole Polytechnique 1795. President de la Commiss.on des Sciences et des Arts d'Egypte 1799. Memb.re du Senat Conservateur 1799. Mort 1818.

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