Past Exhibition

Marie Antoinette

Silver portrait medal of Marie Antoinette wearing a curled wig, with a lovelock over her right shoulder, in a low-cut dress trimmed with ermine
Silver medal of a nude winged man holding a crown of laurel leaves in his left hand and lighting a torch from a brazier with his right hand. On the right side of the brazier, a standing woman wearing a loose, classical-style gown holds two cornucopias in her left hand

Anton Franz Widemann (1724–1792) and Peter Kaiserswerth (act. 1765–93)
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), dated 1770
Silver, struck
Diam.: 1 3/4 in. (4.38 cm)
Scher Collection

Cat. 70