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Jean Baptiste Hanet Cléry
French
1821
Mint: France
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 52 mm (2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry H. Fay
Accession Number13.822
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionCircular medal of Jean Baptiste Hanet-Cléry (1759-1809).
Obverse: Profile bust of Hanet-Clery looking to proper right; inscribed at edge "J.BAPTE.CANT.HANET-CLERY.", on bust "PETIT F", and under bust "DE PUYMAURIN D.".
Reverse: Inscribed in wreath "NÉ/LE XI MAI/EN M.D.CCLIX./MORT/LE XXVII MIA./EN MD.CCCIX/GALERIE DE LA FIDÉLITÉ/---/1821".
Obverse: Profile bust of Hanet-Clery looking to proper right; inscribed at edge "J.BAPTE.CANT.HANET-CLERY.", on bust "PETIT F", and under bust "DE PUYMAURIN D.".
Reverse: Inscribed in wreath "NÉ/LE XI MAI/EN M.D.CCLIX./MORT/LE XXVII MIA./EN MD.CCCIX/GALERIE DE LA FIDÉLITÉ/---/1821".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "J.BAPTE.CANT.HANET-CLERY.", on bust "PETIT F", and under bust "DE PUYMAURIN D.".
Reverse: Inscribed in wreath "NÉ/LE XI MAI/EN M.D.CCLIX./MORT/LE XXVII MIA./EN MD.CCCIX/GALERIE DE LA FIDÉLITÉ/---/1821".
Reverse: Inscribed in wreath "NÉ/LE XI MAI/EN M.D.CCLIX./MORT/LE XXVII MIA./EN MD.CCCIX/GALERIE DE LA FIDÉLITÉ/---/1821".
ProvenanceBy 1913, Henry H. Fay; 1913, gift of Henry H. Fay to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 1, 1913)