The Scher Collection includes a small but important group of medals representing medallic production in Russia and Scandinavia, where the cross-cultural exchange of artists, patrons, and medals was particularly important.
PAST EXHIBITION
Russia and Scandinavia
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Unknown artist
Anselm Ephorinus (ca. 1498–1566) and His Wife Sophia [Fogelweder] (b. ca. 1525), dated 1557
Silver, cast
Diam.: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 127 -
Unknown artist
Princess Hedwig of Denmark (1581–1641; Electress of Saxony 1602–11), after 1602
Silver, cast
1 5/16 × 1 1/8 in. (3.36 × 2.8 cm)
Scher Collection
Cat. 128 -
Unknown artist
Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden (b. 1594; r. 1611–32),
ca. 1630–32
Silver, embossed, from Nuremberg or Stettin (Germany), with hallmark of Paul Walter from Dresden in the field on the left
3 13/16 × 2 13/16 in. (9.73 × 7.13 cm) (including frame)
Scher CollectionCat. 129
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Possibly Johan Höhn (1607–1693)
Boguslaw (1620–1669) and Anna Maria (1640–1667) Radziwill of Poland, 1665
Silver, struck
Diam.: 1 15/16 in. (4.88 cm)
Scher CollectionCat. 130
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Fyodor Alexeyev (1753–1824)
Peter I of Russia, the Great (b. 1672; Tsar of All Russia 1682–1721; Emperor of All Russia 1721–25), dated 1703
Silver, struck
Diam.: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)
The Frick Collection; Gift of Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2016Cat. 131
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Leopold Sinayeff-Bernstein (1867–1944)
Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) (1828–1910), 1911
Copper alloy, cast
Diam.: 10 7/16 in. (26.52 cm)
Scher CollectionCat. 132