417 - André VAUTHIER-GALLE (1818–1899)

André VAUTHIER-GALLE (1818–1899) Medal collection mounted under glass, comprising fourteen bronze medals and four plaster medals, including Bernard PALISSY (diameter 17 cm), Jean-Baptiste LENN (diameter 15 cm), DUFRESNE de la CHAUVINIERE (diameter 15 cm), Auguste SIBOUR, Archbishop of Paris (plaster) (diameter 15 cm), Count de NIEUWERKERKE (plaster) (diameter 16 cm), Simon SAINT-JEAN (diameter 15 cm), and Pierre-Armand DUFRENOY (diameter 14.5 cm). Wooden frame with gilded stucco decorated with flowers and foliage (minor chips). Overall dimensions: 86 x 106 cm. Note: André VAUTHIER-GALLE was a student of his maternal grandfather, the medalist André Galle, as well as of Louis Petitot and Paul Blondel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the first Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving and fine stone engraving in 1839 for *Hercules Strangling Antaeus*. He worked for the Atelier général du timbre from 1837 to 1878. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1852 to 1862.