Napoléon III - Achèvement du louvre

Commemorative issue

Completion of the louvre MDCCCLVII

Obverse

Bust of the emperor on the left.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR
DEPAULIS F.

Engraver: Alexis-Joseph Depaulis

Reverse

An antique-dressed woman on the left, personifying Architecture, unfurls the plans for the various buildings that make up the Louvre; on the right, Napoleon III stands holding the half-unfurled plans for the Louvre's completion.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AETERNITATI AC MAIESTATI IMPERII GALLICI
ACHEVEMENT DU LOUVRE
MDCCCLVII.
DEPAULIS INV. ET F.

Engraver: Alexis-Joseph Depaulis

Edge

Smooth, date, hallmark and inscription

Script: Latin

Lettering: 1975 BRONZE

© DOOF71

Mint

Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Comments

Modern refracting of 1975 inaugurating the completion of the Louvre museum in 1857

This is an automatic translation. The original text is:

Refrappe moderne de 1975 inaugurant l'achèvement du musée du Louvre en 1857

See also

• Museum
• Monarch
• Allegory

• Médaille - Louis Napoléon Bonaparte - Achèvement des Tuileries et du Louvre

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