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Jacques Boiceau

Medal
1624 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dupré, Abraham (maker)
Place of origin
France (made)

This cast bronze medal depicts Jacques Boiceau, Sieur de la Barrauderie, wearing a ruff. Boiceau was a French garden designer and the superintendent of royal gardens under Louis XIII.


Object details

Categories
Coins & Medals
Sculpture
Object type
Medal
TitleJacques Boiceau
Materials and techniques
Cast bronze
Bronze
Cast
Brief description
Medal, uniface, Jacques Boiceau de la Barrauderie, by Abraham Dupré, 1624.
Physical description
Cast bronze medal, obverse only. It bears the portrait of Boiceau to the right, wearing a ruff and a cloak over an embroidered doublet.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 69.5mm
Marks and inscriptions
IACQVES BOICEAV SR DE LA BARRAVDERIE / AB DUPRE F 1624
Object history
Bought for £3. 18s. 2d.

Historical significance: This design is the first medallic work by Abraham Dupré, Guillaume Dupré's fourth child. This commission must derive from the sitter's friendly connection with the family, as he was godfather to Jacques Dupré, brother of this medal's maker. Jones notes that this medal 'shows a promise as a medallist that was never to be fulfilled' (1988, p.111).
Versions of this medal, figuring both obverse and reverse, exist in the British Museum in London, the Koninklijk Kabinet von Munten, Pennungen en Gesneden Stenen in Leiden, the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, the National Gallery of Washington
Historical context
Jacques Boiceau was Intendant des Jardins under Louis XIII. His Traité du jardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art, posthumously published in 1638, was influential on the development of garden design in seventeenth-century France.
Production
This is an aftercast of the 1624 design.
Subject depicted
Boiceau, Jacques (Sieur De La Barrauderie)
Summary
This cast bronze medal depicts Jacques Boiceau, Sieur de la Barrauderie, wearing a ruff. Boiceau was a French garden designer and the superintendent of royal gardens under Louis XIII.
Associated object
A.365-1910 (Version)
Bibliographic references
  • List of Objects in the Art Division South Kensington Museum acquired during the Year 1900. Arranged according to the dates of acquisition, with appendix and indices. London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office. Wyman and Sons. 1903. pp.127
  • Bie, Jacques de, La France Métallique, Paris, 1634, p. 212, no. 1
  • Delaroche, Paul, Henriquel Dupont and Charles Lenormant, Trésor de Numismatique et de Glyptique : Médailles Françaises, 5 vols, Paris 1634-36, vol. III, pl. 18, no. 5
  • Jal, Auguste, Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire (2nd edition), Paris, 1872, p. 520
  • Mazerolle, Fernand, Les médailleurs français du XVè au milieu du XVIIè , 3 vols, Paris, 1902, vol. II, no. 712
  • Pollard, Graham J. and G.F. Hill, Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art, London, 1967, no. 572
  • Hazlehurst , Franklin H., Jacques Boyceau and the French formal garden, Athens, Georgia, 1966, p. 90 fig. 2
  • Jones, Mark, Catalogue of French Medals in the British Museum, vol. II, 1600-1672, London, 1988, no. 72, pp. 110-113.
Collection
Sculpture Collection
Accession number
828-1900

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Record createdMarch 9, 2009
Record URL
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